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I rise to urge my colleagues to support my amendment. As you have been talking to your school districts and as you have been talking to the school personnel, if they don't mention the challenges they have dealing with children in their…

do I have any time remaining? The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time has expired. The question is on agreeing to the amendment.

I hope I get a better answer than Senator Portman.

Because these regulations frequently have opportunity costs, the ones that are harder to quantify and will result in change in behavior which will then have consequences of its own.

But, you have got to have a response when things get out of control that is not, we used our best judgment. Therefore, we are never negligent.

I think one of the things that disturbs me about that fire is that when you look back, and when I talk to the ranchers who begged the Forest Service not to light that fire...

I think the tribes are strapped for resources. I think they are having a hard time meeting current demand.

This continues our discussion about what is happening and what we can do to improve conditions for Native American youth, an issue everyone on this Committee, I know, is extraordinarily passionate about.

I understand the need to protect people, but I also understand the need to have some form of small-dollar, short-term lending.

I would reiterate Senator Tester's concern about consultation and would be interested in follow-up on consultation with tribes as well.

And I want to make one final point on this, which is interesting to me, and that is, where we are deeply concerned about what you have, we should be equally deeply concerned about the cybersecurity of the information where it resides.

A young officer told me how she knew a couple of kids who would get in trouble just so they would have the stability of being incarcerated for a weekend, where they knew someone would actually listen to them, someone would actually feed…

I think we fail to screen kids very well who go into the system, whether it is fetal alcohol effects, trauma-induced behavior, non-consequential thinking, just a fundamental disparity.

the problems facing American Indian and Alaska Native children are so significant that only concerted action by the Executive branch agencies and Congress would begin to address them.

I think your personal integrity is unimpeachable.

I think my point is, in terms of your data collection, the only way you would have personally identified data would be if it were necessary to serve the consumer either in a broad complaint or an individual complaint.