Heidi Heitkamp actually said...

We cannot normalize this behavior. If we are going to prevent this behavior, we have to look at the conditions beginning with childhood trau...

I have worked to try to improve conditions for Native children pretty much my entire public life.

What does that say? It says that somehow we have normalized this behavior to the point that we are not getting through.

Senator Heitkamp also graciously asked me to participate in an anti-trafficking roundtable in Bismarck, North Dakota.