Heidi Heitkamp actually said...

"Winter is coming, but in North Dakota, spring is coming."

"Well, I think that was the choice they made in Biggert-Waters, but now you see we are all here screaming that did not work."

"I think the 500-pound gorilla that we have not talked about yet in this Committee hearing is: Is there a political will to continue to subsidize the same way we subsidize crop insurance for farmers?"

"I think that this discussion is so important to the future of our country. How do we take fact-based analysis, science-based analysis?"