Byron Dorgan: “this will happen more slowly than we originally anticipated.”

I wanted to say one of my regrets is I don't think we do enough in our Congress of oversight hearings.

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.

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.