Heidi Heitkamp actually said...

"frequently the vacancies that we have would be highly sought after, where they would be highly technical, and so you have three people, now someone leaves, and those two know that there is no way they..."

"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."