Byron Dorgan: “We've requested, Senator Franken and I, an increase that would bring the funding up to the 2003 level.”

Tribes ceded close to 200 million acres of land during the treaty-making and removal periods prior to 1881.

We need and the people in the Great Plains need, concrete results.

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.

This is not about politics; everyone on this dais knows that.