We need to focus on the needs of victims and ensure they receive the help they require.

We have to actually know who we are dealing with.

I don't know how you can listen to what you have told us today and not give this government an F in protecting the children in Indian Country.

In what world aren't we horrified?

We want them fixed, and we want victim services to be made available to all the victims of North Dakota, so that no one gets left behind.

I can only tell you as an attorney general in the 1990s, these numbers shouldn't shock me.

I am horrified. Who could sit in this room and not be horrified.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Vice Chairman Tester for holding what I think is an absolutely critically important hearing today.

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I only have so much time, Mr. Hochberg, so do you think you can achieve a 25-percent target in this period of time that we have given you in this reauthorization?

Finally, obviously, there is a lot of concern--and I think the Chairman expressed some legitimate concern--about reforms.

the legislative draft being worked on by Senators Hoeven and Blumenthal will ensure this to be the case.

There are obviously people here in the Congress who want to put a stake through the heart of the Eximbank.

The Kirk-Heitkamp bill actually does raise the target for small business from 20 percent to 25 percent and requires reporting.