We can fix this, but it is important to step back as the commission proposed by Senators Heitkamp and Murkowski offer to do.
I am happy to do that. I think what she and Senator Murkowski have introduced has great merit.
These are solemn promises by the government and then what has been done relevant to those promises.
We thank you for your bipartisan leadership with Senator Murkowski to try to move this forward and get some bright minds looking at this to ...
Isn't that interesting? Not very interesting, it is pretty depressing.
How do we get to a C, then a B and then an A?
We respectfully request that the procedures used to implement the legislation not be duplicative, costly nor a source of frustration to poss...
We must hold professionals accountable when they are not following existing law.
I have spent a lot of time in Indian Country in my time in public life in North Dakota.
Despite all of that, these kids have been left behind. The fact is, it is a national disgrace.
This commission talks about the barriers, the obstacles, trying to evaluate explicitly what the elements are that we can put together that f...
I would like to thank you for holding this hearing.
This brings me to the proposed Native American Child Safety Act currently introduced by Senators Hoeven and Tester and co-sponsored by Senat...
The proposed legislation would, among other things, expand background check requirements for all adults residing in prospective foster care ...
This legislation is about making sure foster homes are safe, not only on our reservations in North Dakota, but across the Country.
How are you going to assure us that private property rights are going to be protected?
I introduced the Empower States Act, allowing States and tribes the ability to regulate hydraulic fracturing on Federal lands.
I find it quite offensive, the terminology that we 'dragged a woman in here last year.'
