Heidi Heitkamp actually said...

"What they lack is a sustainable funding source. These efforts are at the heart of the trust responsibility our government holds with tribal nations."

"What we have done in the past clearly has not worked."

"We cannot continue to air drop in resources erratically when suicides spike in Indian communities and turn around and abandon those communities when patchwork funding runs out."

"I do not think anyone here thinks that suicide is anything other than a symptom of what are clearly conditions that many children on the reservation and in Indian Country exist in, creating stress."