Byron Dorgan: “This bill would settle the Pechanga Band's water rights in the Santa Margarita River watershed northwest of San Diego…”

I know that everyone sitting at this table has a passionate desire to fix these problems.

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

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

I wanted to say one of my regrets is I don't think we do enough in our Congress of oversight hearings.