Byron Dorgan: “It seems to me you will lead a rather unhealthy agency.”

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.

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

We need and the people in the Great Plains need, concrete results.

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.