Senate hearing on Indian Health reauthorization
Thursday, March 8, 2007
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The Senate Indian Affairs Committee held a hearing this morning on the long-stalled reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.
The hearing started at 9:30am and was broadcast online. It last about two hours.
You can download MP3 files of the testimony below.
• Opening Statements - 9:15 - 2.1 MB
Panel 1
• Testimony - 13:06 - 3MB |
Q&A - 36:41 - 8.4MB
DR. JOHN O. AGWUNOBI
Assistant
Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
accompanied by: DR. CHARLES W. GRIM, Director, Indian
Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville,
MD
MR. C. FREDERICK BECKNER III
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice
Panel 2
• Testimony - 39:31 - 9MB |
Q&A - 16:29 - 3.8MB
THE HONORABLE RICHARD BRANNAN
Chairman, Northern Arapaho Business Council
MS. RACHEL A. JOSEPH
Co-Chair, National Steering
Committee on the Reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act
MR. EDWARD P. LAZARUS
Partner, Akin Gump
Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP
MR. STEVE GAGE
Director, Community Health Aide Program, Southeast Alaska Regional
Health Consortium
On the House side, a bipartisan group introduced H.R.1328 on Tuesday. The House Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing next Wednesday, March 14.
Committee Notice:
HEARING on the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (March 8, 2007)
Relevant Documents:
Letter
to President Bush |
Letter
to Alberto Gonzales |
DOJ
White Paper
Relevant Links:
Indian Health Service -
http://www.ihs.gov National
Indian Health Board -
http://www.nihb.org
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