Byron Dorgan: “I will continue to do that. I need to do it more forcefully.”

What you and members of this Committee can do and will do by putting the spotlight on this spot will save lives.

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.

the problems facing American Indian and Alaska Native children are so significant that only concerted action by the Executive branch agencies and Congress would begin to address them.