Heidi Heitkamp actually said...

"What we have done in the past clearly has not worked."

"We cannot continue to air drop in resources erratically when suicides spike in Indian communities and turn around and abandon those communities when patchwork funding runs out."

"I do not think anyone here thinks that suicide is anything other than a symptom of what are clearly conditions that many children on the reservation and in Indian Country exist in, creating stress."

"Unfortunately, this year it seems like we can provide more money for defense budgets but we cannot put more money into saving lives of Native youth."