Byron Dorgan: “We really are going to be pushy. And we're doing that because we think it's essential.”

Tribes ceded close to 200 million acres of land during the treaty-making and removal periods prior to 1881.

This is a heavy lift. This is something that needs to be done.

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.

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.