Byron Dorgan

From my standpoint, I think that has merit, to the extent that there is then a consensus developed on the more comprehensive project against which this contribution could count.

Let me just observe that the delay on funding for the Breckenridge project no longer exists, since I became chairman of the subcommittee.

Yes, Wahpeton-Breckenridge is in a different situation because that is an established project that is--the proposition is correct that there was not adequate funding for Breckenridge for a while.

We are providing that funding, and we will continue to do that.

We need to cooperate.

If we are going to debate this in the forum--and we are not going to do that, right, Collin, because that accomplishes nothing.

Senators Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan announced last week that they have successfully secured emergency funding to shore up roads in the Devils Lake basin.

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

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

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

In that case, the Supreme Court held that the Secretary of the Interior could NOT acquire lands in trust status for an Indian tribe acknowledged after 1934.

I believe that Congress will likely need to act to clarify this issue for tribes and to ensure that the land in trust process is available to all tribes regardless of when they were recognized.

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.

Our subcommittee will want to work closely with you and with your staff in the Department of Energy as we work through the markup of an appropriations bill going forward in the coming fiscal year.

You can observe more movement in a glacier than in the Department of Energy on some issues.

I feel very strongly that the administration has solicited the service of someone who's extraordinary.

It appears to us it's a $500 million to $1 billion that's a shortfall.

I would hope that we would continue having NREL as the center of that research.

I'm hoping to help you with the funding for these projects, by the way, because I think--well, we may not be around in the long term, in the long term, we're all dead.

I don't disagree with that at all, but do you think 50 years from now, that your hope is more efficient internal combustion engines, more diesel engines on the road?

I think the Department's made a significant mistake here. And I, for one, am not interested in shutting down these research projects.

I think most of the stimulus funding is considered to be demonstration projects rather than R&D.

To see these contracts shut down in the middle of the contract on very important research, I think is not a smart thing to do.

I'm stunned that the budget essentially just moves away from hydrogen fuel cell research and stops projects in the middle of these projects.

Coal is my worst nightmare.