Byron Dorgan: “We have made promises, we have signed the line in treaty agreements, and we have trust responsibilities.”

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.

You know, I do not know that I can offer you much advice except to say we have painted ourselves into a fiscal policy corner.

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.

Now, we need to change. We need to do it quickly and effectively.