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Heidi Heitkamp

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Heidi Heitkamp is an American politician and attorney who served as the United States Senator from North Dakota from 2013 to 2019. A member of the Democratic-NPL Party, she was the first woman elected to the Senate from North Dakota. During her tenure, Heitkamp focused on issues such as agriculture, energy, and rural development, advocating for policies that benefited her state's economy and communities.

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Jul 16, 2015

today, as I do most Thursdays in this Senate, I rise to speak about the young men from my State of North Dakota who went to Vietnam and certainly those who died while serving in the Vietnam war. As I have said before, the families of each…

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Jul 16, 2015

once again I see my good friend Senator Collins fighting for all of the good people of her State and all of our States and raising important issues--issues that I dealt with, quite honestly, quite a bit when I was attorney general of my…

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Jul 15, 2015

But, you have got to have a response when things get out of control that is not, we used our best judgment. Therefore, we are never negligent.

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Jul 15, 2015

I think you are probably one of the most important offices no one has ever heard of.

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Jul 15, 2015

Because these regulations frequently have opportunity costs, the ones that are harder to quantify and will result in change in behavior which will then have consequences of its own.

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Jul 15, 2015

the role of your agency and of your employees in making that happen will be absolutely critical.

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Jul 15, 2015

We would not be setting any parameters.

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Jul 15, 2015

I think one of the things that disturbs me about that fire is that when you look back, and when I talk to the ranchers who begged the Forest Service not to light that fire...

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Jul 15, 2015

I hope I get a better answer than Senator Portman.

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Jul 15, 2015

do I have any time remaining? The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time has expired. The question is on agreeing to the amendment.

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Jul 15, 2015

if this is not negligence, I do not know what is.

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Jul 15, 2015

I rise to urge my colleagues to support my amendment. As you have been talking to your school districts and as you have been talking to the school personnel, if they don't mention the challenges they have dealing with children in their…

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