Heidi Heitkamp actually said...

"I want to publicly thank Ms. Verma for working with my office and working with me to talk about rural health care delivery."

"We should be talking about the increased cost of health care, and so if we could all just turn away from our politics for a minute and go directly to solving the problem, we would go a lot further."

"But one thing that gets absolutely lost in the back-and-forth on Obamacare is we should be talking about health care."

"there is an approach avoidance on what you guys do, and it just seems to me that when you have your boot on the neck of a bad actor, you should keep it there."