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I come to the floor this afternoon to honor the incredible men and women of our Nation's law enforcement agencies and to recognize the ultimate sacrifice of one of North Dakota's peace officers. Each year, peace officers from all over the…
We absolutely need to get a cop on the beat.
I do not want to be in that situation where I get a call and we find there is an active shooter and confusion about who has jurisdiction and who will have primary response.
We spent more time than we should have trying to figure who had jurisdiction over that school.
If you spend any time at all talking to people in Indian Country, there is not a reservation in North Dakota that thinks they have too much law enforcement.
I do not think it is always clear who has jurisdiction.
I don't think anyone else shares the same concerns for children that I do.
I need to know who we can count on and who we can hold accountable if something happens where there is not appropriate emergency response.
We cannot let that happen. This needs to be systemic and ongoing.
We know, and no one should deny, that we have an incredible job to do in improving the quality of Indian education in these schools.
We need to ensure that our schools are safe and secure for our children.
this is such an important issue, and those of us who have spent time with any of the workers and those of us who have spent time with small business owners who are deeply concerned about the viability of their business under a ``last man…
We must do more to protect our Native American students.
If people are not protected, it is awfully hard to learn.
The reason this is a unique hearing on the Bureau of Indian Education is that I want to know about emergency response.
The other part of the question is will you make a commitment to us that for each one of the schools for which we have obligations, we are going to get an answer on who has jurisdiction.
We have a unique and critical responsibility.
One is resourcing schools so that we are dealing with behavioral and mental health issues.