Heidi Heitkamp actually said...

"If it is just legal advice, then why privilege it? The taxpayers paid for it. Let us see it."

"I think we are buying ourselves--I think our concern here is, No. 1, to understand your decisionmaking, and I applaud you."

"I think sometimes Washington loses sight of how folks really at the local level are trying to make every penny count."

"it can be school supplies, like Senator Heitkamp said, it can be school supplies, it can be pay-to-play fees, lab fees, it could be Native language programs, it could be culture programs, programs to ..."