I know in North Dakota the commission itself does not have eminent domain authority. It's strictly the purview of the courts.
Senator Dorgan, the State utility representative from North Dakota made it crystal-clear.
With the amount of money our country is already spending on health care, it is very hard for me to understand why the answer is to put more ...
I would just respond to the gentleman that I have seen a bigger budget gimmick, and that is fighting the war in Iraq without putting a nicke...
the issue of cyber-security is really important.
In many ways, smart grid is kind of at odds with the traditional concept of a utility company.
What if smart grid, as a terminology and as a point of discussion with respect to government policy, just takes a complete backseat.
I think there's absolutely no question that, when you combine digital information technology into a system that's controlling and moving ele...
I have told the story on the floor of the United States Senate, with the consent of the relatives, of a young woman named Avis Little Wind.
Following that, and following discussions at the Standing Rock Reservation where I went and met just myself with a good number of high schoo...
The unfortunate result is that the rate of suicide among American Indian and Alaska Natives is 70 percent higher than the general U.S. popul...
In the last decade, Indian Reservations have seen youth suicide rates reach epidemic levels.
I think derivatives, while probably the vast majority of it is completely legitimate, the part that was not was the assessment of risk.
I believe it is a combination of a very loose monetary policy, a very loose fiscal policy, a very loose trade policy, all coupled with dereg...
I think there was one part of it that was very, very wrong, and I regret deeply my own going along with it.
All of us who participated in supporting that bear responsibility.
I think I could be persuaded on reconciliation.
If I were in the minority at this moment, I would want to think very, very carefully: Do I want an unfettered reconciliation process?
