Tina Smith: “I first want to thank Senator Smith and this Committee for your efforts to enact the Leech Lake Reservation Restoration…”

I stand before this body trying to make sense of the terrible shooting at Annunciation Catholic School, just a couple of miles from where Archie and I live in Minneapolis, and I can't. I can't make it make sense. You know, I know this…

I think we're at a tipping point.

I don’t know whether Sen. Lee thought fully through what it was, you’d have to ask him, but I needed him to hear from me directly what impact I think his cruel statement had on me, his colleague.

“The freedom to live and love openly without fear of retaliation is a fundamental American value,”