Heidi Heitkamp

There is a boatload of money that is coming your way, and if we cannot trust that you are spending it right, if we cannot trust that the decisions are being made based on evidence-related factors and by professionals, this is not going to…

If we are going to do the right kind of oversight, we cannot have this kind of disparate jurisdictional challenges.

And if that money is just going to be poofed and we look back on this time and say in our rush to get this done, we did not do the right oversight, then shame on us.

If we cannot see an IG report and all the attachments, we are not doing oversight, right?

You need to get this house in order----

But let us not pretend that we are going to get a broad reauthorization oversight capacity here with this kind of mixed jurisdiction.

We need a result for these pensions. And I want to thank the Ranking Member for the excellent work that he and his staff have done on this.

I think it is critically important that we make the public understand that we simply went in the bill from designating automatically to basically allowing the regulators to designate some entity as a SIFI.

What are the strategies not just dealing with China, but what are the strategies to deal with these precursor problems?

We knew we had a huge meth problem, a lot of attention paid to labs--90 to 95 percent of all the meth that was consumed in North Dakota came in through Mexico.

It is killing people.

The treaties that they have with Canada, with other international groups, limit their ability to do interdiction.

This is not just limited, and if we just simply focus on drug interdiction and on China, which is our immediate problem, we will miss the opportunity to fix the broader problem.

I think it is really important that we not spend all of our time here simply focused on China.

I think this is the third or fourth time we have been in this room talking about this, and I have to tell you this investigation reminds us that we are not doing everything and with a sense of urgency that we need to do.

We got a lot of requests with regard to credit and access to credit.

So more harmonization between HUD and USDA.

I want to thank Keith and the Shakopee for the wonderful work that you guys did.

Well, Keith, one of the things Zach raised, which is which is value-added agriculture and meat processing...

Do you think that establishing a permanent rural development tribal technical assistance office, is that the first step toward that identification and that awareness of sovereignty and that these are entities that need to be dealt with…

You will find a very open committee, a very interested committee, a very committed committee.

It is unbelievable to any of us that there is not a master list somewhere, especially within each agency, of what these programs are.

We cannot underestimate what a bad manager does to efficiency, what a bad manager does to morale

I hope we can expedite your confirmation. I find you perfectly well qualified.

We are here to listen, and when you run into problems it is important to bring it back to our Committee.