Byron Dorgan: “This is a hearing to discuss FAA reauthorization, but especially to discuss the issue of modernization.”

The fundamental problem found in the Dorgan report in 2010 and the findings now before the House is IHS, LEADERSHIP was failing then as it is failing now.

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

Senator Dorgan once said it takes four agencies and 49 steps. I think with the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, we say it is seven agencies and 100 steps.

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.