Byron Dorgan: “We intend to monitor very, very carefully what is happening with respect to your rulemaking.”

Now, we need to change. We need to do it quickly and effectively.

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.

Obviously the future is education. We have a 50 percent high school dropout rate among Native American youth.

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.