I should say that my hypothetical was unthinkable when I talked about Mr. Sununu.

I think these oversight hearings, of this type especially, are very important.

I am thinking to myself, where did the $26 billion come from? We cannot find a half a billion dollars or a billion dollars to address life and death issues dealing with health care for Native Americans.

One dentist is serving 4,000 people out of a trailer house. That is not health care.

But in both Democrat and Republican Administrations the IHS budgets have not been sufficient to meet the health care needs of Native Americans.

Why? Because we did not have enough money to have enough caseworkers to make sure we protected these young children.

Well, the pharmaceutical industry spends a great amount of money advertising your position, but frankly, I am talking to you about a narrower issue here this morning and I have not yet received an answer.

There is no evidence that any insurance company in the history of America has encouraged people to go across some country's border to buy prescription drugs.

Do you believe an insurance company should prohibit coverage when an American senior citizen, for example, goes over and brings a prescription drug back?

Do you believe that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Dakota should cover a prescription drug that is an FDA-approved drug purchased at a drug store in Emerson, Canada, brought back for personal use by a senior citizen in North Dakota?

I just get angry when I see this letter, which is parroting the pharmaceutical industry's advertisements.

The fact is, we are not talking about a lot of money. We are not talking about a lot of consumers.