Byron Dorgan: “The Congress has not done its job. We have signed the treaties. We have made the promises.”

A user fee structure...would provide a stable stream of funding.

Senator Byron Dorgan's 68-page Report of 2010 addressing the critical conditions of all the Great Plain's Regional IHS was brought to the attention of McSwain.

I think what Governor Engler indicated is the most important point, and that is the stability of funding for a project of this type is essential.

I spent much of my time as Chairman of this committee focused on increasing funding for the IHS and trying to force some systemic changes in the bureaucracy that plagues that agency.