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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.

It is a travesty! Further, it is a problem that will continue to have negative impacts for generations to come.

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

We need and the people in the Great Plains need, concrete results.