What I always tell people is--I do something that a lot of people here do not do, which is represent rural America.
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Heitkamp emphasizes her role in representing rural America and its challenges.
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I find some regret that you have to come here, given the fact that you are all sovereign and that you have the ability to run your own business.
The time to actually stand up for Texas and stand up for this country and stand up for our democracy is to do it in public.
Well, I am just telling you, that if I ran your agency and if I ran the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, I would figure out a way to do it better, especially when we are dealing with you.
There`s no way you could run against that headwind. And so, the really important thing here is the dissolution of the Republican Party, that they let people like this back in, that they are pandering so that they can win elections.





