Byron Dorgan: “I really want you to succeed. We need to find a way to get enough capital into this rail passenger system.”

They need our help because we are the ones who made the promise and we are the ones not keeping it.

I spent much of my time as Chairman of this committee focused on increasing funding for the IHS and trying to force some systemic changes in the bureaucracy that plagues that agency.

The problems facing American Indian and Alaska Native children are so significant that only concerted action by the Executive branch agencies and Congress would begin to address them.

You know, I do not know that I can offer you much advice except to say we have painted ourselves into a fiscal policy corner.