Byron Dorgan: “As Senator Dorgan noted, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita moved through oil fields in the Gulf as powerful category-5 storms.”

I know the word 'privatization' has been used. I did not use it.

The Indian Health Service has failed their patients.

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.

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.