James Lankford actually said...

"If the tribes don't work together, if they are not trying to work out their differences... then you have a really fractured situation."

"So it takes an act of Congress, literally, to move water from one area to another area within a State."

"To speak from Montana's experience, to get to State legislative approval, the negotiations generally have gone on and off oftentimes for a decade."

"The State of Montana did something very important. They statutorily recognized the Winters doctrine and the primacy of Indian water rights."