Heidi Heitkamp actually said...

"Are you willing to work on a bipartisan basis so that we can move these nominees as expeditiously as possible without getting into the weeds on someone that many of us suspect might be a saboteur of t..."

"You have an obligation not only to the taxpayers and people of this country. You have a treaty obligation to meet these standards under treaty obligations."

"We cannot afford to wait six years to address the issues that GAO has set forth."

"It is a matter, in some cases, of life and death."