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The legislation proposed by Chairman Barrasso and Senator John Thune, S. 2953 'The Indian Health Service Accountability Act of 2016', is attempting to address long-standing Tribal concerns about the IHS.

The mismanagement of fiscal stability that is lacking in the area and the agency have just completely eliminated my confidence in the agency.

I believe that IHS should get out of the hospital business. I think they're terrible at it. I don't think they know what they're doing.

The medical care that we receive at IHS in the Great Plains region is like getting health care in a third-world country.

It seems like every time we have an emergency that comes up and there’s an obvious layout program, we find out more things are a problem and it brings in the public attention, but what we end up doing is we provided a band-aid.

We're talking about improving accountability at IHS.

$80 million. $80 million, Mr. Chairman, that went for litigation that was taken from patient care in the Great Plains Area.

The IHS needs major reform.

I most certainly appreciate you taking the time to hold today's field hearing in South Dakota where our tribal members are all too familiar with the failures of the Indian Health Service.

The chronic failures of the IHS, failures that, frankly, are just unacceptable

IHS has not been forthcoming about changes.

There's got to be a way in which we can create a mechanism formalized so that consultation can take place.

I wanted to acknowledge Congresswoman Noem for alleviation of the employer mandate from the tribes.

More taxpayer money won't solve the dysfunction because what IHS lacks is an efficient system and accountability.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 2:13 a.m., adjourned until Thursday, June 16, 2016, at 10 a.m.

My concern is that sometimes as we try to protect individuals, we actually limit the availability to them of opportunities to invest.

What frustrates me is this has somehow become a political issue, and I don't really understand that.

It would be foolish for us to sit here and say we don't need trade agreements.