We need to be very careful that not every kid is going to fall into that category and that not doing the metrics on the front end is disturbing.

I am deeply concerned about on a number of levels, and you are hearing kind of a broad scope of concern for the children, the safety of the children, but also concern for the safety of our border and who are these kids.

We need better cooperation, better communication with those other three countries to make sure.

Obviously, their Southern Border Strategy, in this case, is--it may be--their efforts to build out the Southern Border may have caused this surge. I do not know. We should be asking that question.

My point is, as we are trying to deal with this humanitarian crisis for those who truly are there in that category, we need to double-down on the law enforcement portion of this so that we know what, in fact, we are dealing with, and those…

But, again, I am very concerned that we not categorize all these kids in one basket, that it is critically important that we understand that this is more complicated than just a number of children being smuggled in for a better life in the…

We just need to make that clear. It does not mean that kids who are being smuggled do not eventually become trafficked.

on December 30, 2013, outside of Casselton, ND, a train carrying crude oil derailed setting off a series of explosions and fire. The first on the scene that day were our local first responders from the Casselton Fire Department, a small…

Indian Country, like a lot of other places where you see a higher level of poverty, basically, it lacks financial institutions.

It is troubling, because securitizing a loan, frequently is it done with land.

We must work together to create opportunities for our Native American communities.

I am obviously not as schooled in the procedures of the Senate, but I want to better understand what happened here. Obviously the Senator moved to bring forward a bill she and Senator Portman worked tirelessly on, which is critical to jobs…