Byron Dorgan: “What is your most immediate and urgent concern as you turn your attention to running this agency?”

You are going to save and improve lives.

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 cannot allow this to continue. This is not fair. It is not even legal.

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.