Byron Dorgan: “That would cost you $45 million?”

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

A user fee structure...would provide a stable stream of funding.

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.

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.