Joint Hearing before the
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
and the
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
on
S. 1057, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendments of 2005
Thursday, July 14, 2005
2:30 p.m.
Room 430 Dirksen Senate Building
Vice Chairman Dorgan's Opening Statement
Witness List
Panel I
DR. CHARLES GRIM, Director, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland
Accompanied by: MR. ROBERT G. McSWAIN, Deputy Director, Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, Rockville, Maryland; MR. GARY HARTZ, Director, Office of Environment Health and Engineering, Indian Health
Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland; and DR. CRAIG VANDERWAGEN, Acting Chief
Medical Officer, Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville
Panel II
THE HONORABLE RACHEL A. JOSEPH, Chairperson, Lone Pine Paiute Shoshone Reservation, Lone Pine, California
THE HONORABLE DON KASHEVAROFF, President, Seldovia Village Tribe, and President of Alaska Native Tribal
Health Consortium, Seldovia, Alaska
THE HONORABLE RICHARD BRANNAN, Chairman, Northern Arapaho Business Council, Ft. Washakie, Wyoming
MR. RALPH FORQUERA, Executive Director, Seattle Indian Health Board, Seattle, Washington
Panel III