Byron Dorgan: “Mr. Chairman, we commend you for holding this important hearing.”

The efficiencies that would be driven from a non-profit corporation...would provide funding as well for excellent and stable and professional management.

I know the word 'privatization' has been used. I did not use 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.

I just want to say that I am concerned about the court's decision in Carcieri and the impact it may have on those tribes that were recognized after 1934.