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The health care crisis within the Indian Health Care Service needs to be resolved.

I will tell you personally from my staff's experience, we continuously have issues gaining information from IHS employees who observe some of these incidents but are fearful to step forward.

I think if some of these employees had been able to come earlier, we might be having a different hearing today.

What has to be acknowledged is that CMS findings indicate people's lives are in jeopardy. This is unacceptable.

It has been approved and the paperwork has been waiting in Aberdeen for 18 months to be signed.

We spend twice as much per person providing health care for those we incarcerate in America's prisons than we do to meet the promise of health care for American Indians.

I think it is important to remember that the solution to every problem is not growing the administrative size of the agency.

No organization in American of which I am aware can work properly in those circumstances.

I too want to thank you and Senator Tester for holding this hearing and shining a light on what is a major crisis in Indian Country in the Great Plains.

For too long, the Federal Government has failed to live up to its promise and its trust responsibility to provide adequate care for the Native American community.

When there is fraud, misconduct, incompetence, criminal activity, you do not need a long investigation for that.

This is about people who die; this is about living and dying.

Thank you, Chairman Barrasso and Ranking Member Tester, and members of the Committee for allowing me as a non-member of the Committee to give a very brief statement.

Senator Tom Daschle recently said he thinks Members of the Senate spend more time fundraising than they do working in Congress.

Today I wish to recognize Dr. Alexis Rudd, a Knauss Sea Grant Fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, for all of the hard work she has done for me, my staff, and other members of the committee over the…

The members are always concerned about the ability of the IRS to administer and taxpayers to comply.

As you know, refundable credits, such as the EITC, historically have had a much higher rate of fraud and error than nonrefundable credits.

I believe that CMS should pause stage three and engage with stakeholders over the next year to better align stage three requirements.