Heidi Heitkamp actually said...

"We cannot simply say 'we share your concern.' It is not enough any longer for the Federal Government to say we share the concerns of all the tribal entities and all the tribal families and all the tri..."

"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."

"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."

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