So it makes a difference.
You are asking for 109 additional staff. What is the magic in that number?
Everything is unusual.
Well, I appreciate the explanation that you have given, Dr. Elmendorf.
Which I think is appropriate, and you should be doing.
I appreciate your comments, Mr. Tapella, about kind of where or how the GPO is actually changing in terms of what it is dealing with and bas...
Let me follow up on that.
Is 1,200 requests from Congress about average? Are we seeing an ever-increasing number of requests?
Appreciate you responding to that.
I feel my job, as a legislator, now that that money is either out on the street or getting out there, we are charged with making sure that t...
We have been pushing--we share a border with Canada, and we have been urging Alaskans for the past 18 months to aggressively get your passpo...
The amount that is in this year's budget request is $15 million.
But I think we also recognize that if you want to do any further expansion that the key is going to be in these partnerships and in these co...
I think it is important that we exercise fiscal discipline and that we lead by example.
It is hard for me to imagine that we improve Indian health very much if we don't address the issue of diabetes.
The issue of detection, treatment and screenings and all of those issues are very important.
The Indian Health Service is in desperate need of good management.
I would urge you to work in a very bipartisan way.
