Oversight Hearing Before the
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
on
Indian Health
Wednesday, March 13, 2005
9:30 a.m.
Room 485 Russell Senate Building
Chairman McCain's Opening Statement
Vice Chairman Dorgan's Opening Statement
Senator Inouye's Opening Statement
Witness List
Panel I
DR. CHARLES W. GRIM, Director, Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland
MS. A. KATHRYN POWER, Director, Center for Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
Panel II
MS. SALLY SMITH, Chairman, National Indian Health Board, Washington, DC
Accompanied by: MR. J.T. PETHERICK, Executive Director, National Indian Health Board, Washington, DC
THE HONORABLE RACHEL JOSEPH, Co-Chairperson, National Steering Committee for the Reauthorization of the Indian Health
Care Improvement Act, and Chairwoman, Lone Pine Paiute Shoshone Reservation, Lone Pine, California
Accompanied by: MR. BUFORD ROLIN, Vice Chairman of the Poarch Creek Band of Indians, and Co-Chairperson of the National
Steering Committee for the Reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act
MS. GEORGIANA IGNACE, President, National Council on Urban Indian Health, Washington, DC
Accompanied by: MS. BEVERLY RUSSELL, Executive Director, National Council on Urban Indian Health, Washington, DC
MR. ANSLEM ROANHORSE, Executive Director, Navajo Nation Department of Health, Window Rock, Arizona