Byron Dorgan: “Taking thousands of people, maybe tens of thousands of people off government assistance and giving them hope is the way…”

The question is not the endpoint. The question is what is the route to get to that endpoint.

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.

You know, I do not know that I can offer you much advice except to say we have painted ourselves into a fiscal policy corner.