Do they go on, then? Do they get a baccalaureate here? Do they go on to somewhere else?

Are you able to retain many of those people that you graduated with a social work degree?

This is a very good program. This is a very good partnership, once again.

Thank you for your work on the Native American Children's Safety Act and, of course, many, many other issues.

So you're in year two of the second five?

So what I would ask you before you leave is: Ask--or, get from the Chairwoman her top three priorities.

Is there anything you can do to help there, in terms of helping them fund the Head Start and bringing resources, assistance, training?

Thank you to Senator John Hoeven and the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs for hosting a field hearing on the Spirit Lake Dakota reservation on the very important topic of child safety and protection.

Mr. President, I am honored to come to the floor today and join my colleagues to support the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court of the United States. Judge Gorsuch is an exemplary pick for my home State of North Dakota…

sexual assault and sexual harassment of any kind are completely unacceptable and obviously have no place in an institution of higher education or anywhere else in our society.

I think this is something that everybody needs--to check ideology at the door, you know, all of this stuff, and look with very clear vision at what is going to happen in the next 20 years as we transition away from defined benefit plans to…

I think the component of all this--and it is like you can lead a horse to water, but can you get it to drink?

I could not agree more in terms of financial literacy.

But that person has to be literate.

There is no reason that it should be partisan to change the incentive systems that we have in Social Security to encourage people to work longer.

I wake up every morning thinking about the men and women in rural America, especially in North Dakota, who play hard, play by the rules, and try to earn an honest living and save for retirement--in fact, their golden years.

I would urge you to impress the importance of this issue on your colleagues as a concrete kind of governance issue that can help rebuild the faith of the American people in our democratic system.

What is realistic is to deal with these changes in a way that does expand access, that does expand the opportunity for people to participate in a retirement plan at work.