Heidi Heitkamp actually said...

"And isn't it likely that those people who can leave, when they do, and it is hard to fill that position, that it is going to have a cascading effect?"

"I think most of us who come from State entities where you do biennial budgeting, where you have more predictability, find that to be a much more humane system and a much more predictable system."

"When we fail to fill needed vacancies unnecessarily, the only people we are hurting are ourselves."

"Across-the-board cuts and the shrinking of the overall Federal workforce are not the answer to making the Federal Government more efficient or more effective."