Byron Dorgan: “I was disappointed at the last hearing to understand the time has slipped.”

They need our help because we are the ones who made the promise and we are the ones not keeping it.

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.

This is not about politics; everyone on this dais knows that.

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.