Well, I am very pleased that you said that because according to the Office of Surface Mining's 2015 Annual Evaluation Report for North Dakot...
I think it is one of the problems that we have with the Federal Government across the board, which is one-size-fits-all.
We are going to continue to beat this drum.
I just want to mention something in this context.
For people who do not know, Portal is much more remote.
The pay system just was not flexible enough to accommodate and remain competitive with the private sector.
So, at your level of managing this are you looking strategically at each one of these border crossing locations' staffing?
I think to Senator Lankford, Chairman Lankford's point, how do we get more agencies to get ahead of it and then make this a priority as they...
I mean, I think the fact that there is not, here, plug it in, this is the need, let us make sure that this happens.
I have been fighting to address these challenges that have been faced by the Federal workforce in the Bakken region.
I am so pleased that today we are going to focus on a topic that is so important to my home State of North Dakota.
Thank you so much. And, if I can just make one point, this whole problem, it seems to me, transitions to our broader issue, which is how do ...
This is not a new issue. During the 1990s, I served on something called Trade and the Environment Policy Advisory Committee for the USTR whe...
These are minerals that belong to a different sovereign nation.
I am glad that you are talking about centralizing this.
We are up against a huge social media network where things get said that should be challenged, but yet we do not seem to find the way to cha...
These are not public lands.
Except what people hear is 'blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.'
