Byron Dorgan: “I think the one thing that we don't want to come out of this hearing is some suggestion or some notion that we don't…”

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

What you and members of this Committee can do and will do by putting the spotlight on this spot will save lives.

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.

They need our help because we are the ones who made the promise and we are the ones not keeping it.