Heidi Heitkamp actually said...

"I am so pleased that today we are going to focus on a topic that is so important to my home State of North Dakota."

"Thank you so much. And, if I can just make one point, this whole problem, it seems to me, transitions to our broader issue, which is how do we recruit the next generation of Federal workforce."

"I think to Senator Lankford, Chairman Lankford's point, how do we get more agencies to get ahead of it and then make this a priority as they are looking at the workforce?"

"I have been fighting to address these challenges that have been faced by the Federal workforce in the Bakken region."