We need your help in this area.

I want to thank you for allowing me to make additional comments and also to share the written testimony.

Also we wanted to share our congratulations to Senator Dorgan, looking at the excellent job that he's done throughout the years.

He has been a great advocate for the Indian people and with his pending retirement from the Senate, please let him know that we will miss him.

I'm enormously proud that we were able to do that.

If there were a repeal of the health care bill that was passed by the Congress, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act would similarly be repealed.

Even if those who believe this should be repealed--and I don't; that would be a profound mistake to repeal that law--even if they had enough votes to repeal it, they would not have enough votes to override a presidential veto.

Everybody's always worried about rationing: It's going on in this country, every single day to American Indians.

To me, it's almost a replication of genocide.

So two to three times a week, a two-hour round-trip, plus the time they're on dialysis.

So that's seven months out of the year, and then the next five months there's no money.

We need to move this, get this done. I think we can get it through the House this time.

That is not going to happen; it will not happen.

But let me ask you: If I might go to the 39-year-old mother of five--are you familiar with this case?

There is now a requirement for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a plan by which Nevada would become its own IHS area.

Somehow, that suggests to me somebody's not thinking in this process.

So that means it's not Priority 1, Life or Limb?

Why would you possibly approve a pacemaker if you don't intend to provide batteries for the pacemaker?