Byron Dorgan

Regional carriers are paying lower salaries than the network carriers in the cockpit.

But, that approach represents opportunity, rather than responsibility, it seems to me.

What responsibility does a major carrier that employees a regional carrier by contract have for the standards at that regional carrier?

We're going to call this hearing to order.

The Wall Street crowd can't wait to sink their teeth into a new trillion dollar trading market in which hedge funds and investment banks would trade and speculate on carbon credits and securities. In no time they will create derivatives…

When you have a reservation such as the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation that I have just described, straddling North and South Dakota, and that reservation, the size of the State of Connecticut, has 9 or 10 police officers to do 24/7 law…

The Congress has not done its job. We have signed the treaties. We have made the promises.

Thank you to you, Senator Dorgan, for having this most important oversight hearing.

We need police officers. We need a court system that is going to prosecute these perpetrators.

We need a better response

We need to address the root causes of gang activity in Indian Country.

Safety is very important. And the fact is, the Congress has not done its job.

I do not support the cap-and-trade plan now being debated in Congress. I think it is the wrong solution. I do not support it.

What an entrance! I didn't mean to come quite this close to the end.

The desire of Canadians to protect themselves against flooding is understandable, but it is not understandable that they keep in place a barrier that maximizes flooding on the North Dakota side and minimizes flooding on the Canadian side.

Thank you, Senator Dorgan, and I will respect the people here.

There needs to be minimum standards.

I hope you will look at that authority more closely and assure that tribes can and will be able to carry out those functions.

I would hope that the Congress would look very clearly at why Artesia is in fact the lock-gate for those who enter into law enforcement on our reservations.

In tribal crime, it is alcohol, alcohol, alcohol.

We can't even do a tribal prosecution, because they have the evidence, we can't get it back.

There needs to be State jurisdiction over non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians.

I followed up with a call to Senator Dorgan's aides, and they got me some answers right away.

I notified Senator Dorgan's staff and they got on it right away.

It is clear to me that the Federal Government has responsibilities. It is clear to me the Federal Government is not meeting those responsibilities.