Director, on the Joint Operations Center (JOC), have you taken steps and are you confident that for any incident that might occur at the White House, that they have the communications capability to get everybody doing what they need to be…

Director, talk about manpower. I know you are, I know, perennially short of manpower.

What I am trying to understand is your follow-up now to ensure that an incident is properly reported up the chain.

I think that is an easier model than developing private housing that can be basically mortgage ready.

I think it does, but it doesn't alleviate my concern because with your court example, wouldn't it be easier if we just had the states permitting as part of the enforcement mechanism rather than have a court...

Getting back to the point that Senator Lankford was making and I think Senator Tester, which is you all have been patching together on each one of these reservations a series of programs to try and expand the resource and basically…

Our goal here is to try and encourage some good best practices on reservations.

I think in cooperation with HUD, you might be able to find some resources to actually do that.

I believe Section 502, the 99 year leasehold, will create an environment where homeowners will invest on trust land and it will attract private capital, not only meeting housing needs but also hopefully expanding and creating economies on…

I think as we are looking at best practices, I guess I would recommend that you look at including a section on homeownership, not just tax credits and multifamily, but really looking at that all important homeownership that helps build…

I am extraordinarily interested in moving NAHASDA forward. I think it is critically important but even if we authorize NAHASDA and even if all that money gets deployed in a very short period of time, we will still have a crisis in housing…

Housing is a critical issue for our tribal communities.

today I rise to speak about and honor our Nation's Vietnam veterans, particularly North Dakota's Vietnam veterans. Since I took office, I have made it a priority to travel throughout North Dakota to meet with my State's veterans, so many…

I come to the floor today to talk about what I believe may be one of the most critical pieces of legislation to address human trafficking in the United States, and that is the piece of legislation authored by Senator Leahy--the Runaway and…

I rise today to speak in support of the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act legislation that has been drafted and introduced by my good friends Senator John Cornyn of Texas and Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. The bill helps…

We are going to be doing reauthorization this year, so we are going to, obviously, be reauthorizing the program.

I think you are familiar with 'right to try' laws that a number of States have now passed...

So economic impact right now, $90 billion from hunting and fishing. And you think with this expanded access that this legislation provides, we could increase that further, correct?