I find some regret that you have to come here, given the fact that you are all sovereign and that you have the ability to run your own business.

We need advocacy within the Department of the Interior, within OMB. We need advocacy to actually correct these problems.

We can't keep doing what we are doing and getting a better result. It is just not going to work.

The time has long passed since we have taken up this issue.

the primary responsibility of any sovereign is to provide for the safety of its people.

We need to work together to address the challenges facing our tribes.

I want to thank Chairman Lamborn, Chairman Bishop, and the ranking member for their cooperation and for helping me move this important legislation that was sponsored, as Chairman Lamborn said, by Senator Hoeven, and for working on my…

It is critical that we support the sovereignty of tribal nations.

It strikes me that those two bills show the incredible diversity we have in Indian Country, right?

If we cannot protect people, we are not doing our job.

I just want to see it. I want to see what that plan is.

We all agree that the worst thing for these families is to migrate north. It is a dangerous journey.

I am deeply concerned about the lack of adequate policing in Indian reservations in my State.

We would really appreciate it if you would take a very hard, close look at the Northern Triangle countries.

I promised people in North Dakota that I wouldn't make a decision based on what team anyone is on.

I believed a yes vote would have compromised my true belief that this person did not have the temperament to be on the Supreme Court.

I think one of the most important things we can do now that that the nomination process is over is to sit back, reflect and to think about what we need to do in reaction to an outpouring of so many people who have been victims.

North Dakota Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp as you'll recall voted against Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court. She seems to be in a difficult political race obviously and maybe political trouble because of that vote.