Joint Hearing Before the
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and
the House Resources Committee,
Office of Native American and Insular Affairs
on
S. 556, a bill to reauthorize the Indian Health Care Improvement Act and
H.R. 2440, Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendments of 2003
Wednesday, July 16, 2003
10:00 a.m.
Room 106 Dirksen Senate Building
Chairman Campbell's Opening Statement
Witness List
Panel I
DR. CHARLES GRIM, Director of Indian Health Service, Department of
Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C.
Accompanied by: ADMIRAL GARY HARTZ, Acting Director, Office of Public Health,
Indian Health Service, Rockville, Maryland; DR. RICHARD OLSON, Acting
Director, Division of Clinical and Preventive Services, Indian Health Service,
Rockville, Maryland; MS. RAE SNYDER, Acting Director of the Urban Health
Office, Indian Health Service, Rockville, Maryland.
MR. STEVEN NESMITH, Assistant Secretary for Congressional Affairs ,
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C.
Panel II
MS. RACHEL JOSEPH, Co-Chair, National Steering Committee on the
Reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, Lone Pine,
California
DR. BEN MUNETA, M.D., President, Association of American Indian
Physicians, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
MR. STEVE WEAVER, Director, Division of Environmental Health &
Engineering, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, Alaska
Accompanied by: MR. ANDREW JIMMIE, Chief, Minto Traditional Council,
Minto Alaska
Panel III
MS. KAY CULBERTSON, President, Denver Indian Health and Family
Services, Denver, Colorado
DR. EVERETT RHOADES, Oklahoma City Urban Indian Clinic, Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma
MS. CARMELITA WAMEGO SKEETER, Executive Director, Indian Health Care
Resource Center of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma