Byron Dorgan: “I think the consensus of this subcommittee will not be to support cutting a half a billion dollars out of the Corps of…”

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

The question is not the endpoint. The question is what is the route to get to that endpoint.

I just want to say that I am concerned about the court's decision in Carcieri and the impact it may have on those tribes that were recognized after 1934.

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