Byron Dorgan

The Indian Health Service is an agency, I believe, with some very serious management problems.

Clinician shortages are rampant. Significant health disparities permeate Indian Country.

The Indian Health Service is only funded at about one half of its need.

I believe Dr. Roubideaux will be inheriting an Indian health system that is broken.

These issues are vital to the long-term development of tribes as self-sufficient governments.

I'm considering introducing legislation that would enhance retention of those experienced career service members.

I am concerned we are not maintaining a balanced force, retaining enough of the very individuals who have gained the benefit of experience these past years of increased operations.

The Readiness Center in Monticello, Mississippi is in poor condition and should be replaced.

There's a lot about the Congress that everybody's frustrated about, even those who serve in this body.

This stuff has to stop. I mean, you all work for the same team, paid by the same taxpayers.

We need to move forward. If this country's going to keep its lead in technology and science...we're going to push very, very hard to make this happen.

How do we decide to raise the funding for it and meet the funding needs, even now, during more difficult times?

I would hope everyone that you have the potential to work with that can contribute in a positive way to this would say, 'I'll tell you what, the FAA reaches out so much we're tired of hearing from them.'

NextGen would change all of that, because you know where that airplane is at every point.

The NextGen technology that we'll be talking about today is of strong interest to my constituents.

We believe very strongly--I certainly do, and I know my colleagues do, as well--that we need to make progress.

This is a hearing to discuss FAA reauthorization, but especially to discuss the issue of modernization.

We understand that there are opportunities to move toward what is called NextGen.

Thanks for holding the hearing and hanging on to this subject because we need to fix it.

But we're not talking about dark matter. We're talking about dark money.

We need some real help.

I think that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission did, in my judgment, a shameful job of regulating.

I believe in trade and plenty of it. I think our country can compete anywhere in the world, but I think our trade agreements are almost bankrupt.

We must deal with that to protect the property, the intellectual property that we create in this country.

Do you believe that we ought to deal with the issue of the bilateral automobile trade that seems so out of balance?