Byron Dorgan: “I support all the things you have just described. I mean, I think we should do all of them and do them well.”

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.

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

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.

I know that everyone sitting at this table has a passionate desire to fix these problems.