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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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Oct 6, 2013

An amazing woman, as all of you are amazing and really pretty remarkable women who are doing something incredibly difficult and who have been doing something incredibly difficult for a very long period of time, which is to stand up for the…

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Oct 6, 2013

It takes enormous courage to stand up.

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Oct 6, 2013

So it was OK to just sign your name on to them without doing the ethical--doing the appropriate investigation?

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Oct 6, 2013

Do you really think that is something that has credibility here?

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Oct 4, 2013

yesterday was a scary day on Capitol Hill. I was sitting in the Presiding Officer's chair and saw the bells ring, saw all the Capitol Police hustle our great pages in to protect them. Senator McCain was speaking, and like the veteran he is…

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Sep 30, 2013

Just imagine the moon. Imagine the moon. They will do whatever we want to do.

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Sep 30, 2013

I think what you hear is a sense of urgency in this room that if we do not do this fairly soon, we will not have the opportunities for reform, even in a year, that we have today.

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Sep 22, 2013

It is just so critically important that we get on top of this.

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Sep 22, 2013

It is not just these victims. It is crime against every person in this country.

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Sep 22, 2013

One of the things that we did in domestic violence is we began to prosecute cases without victim testimony.

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Sep 22, 2013

We have learned from our work in domestic violence that there is a way to begin to have deterrence against those people who would participate on either end.

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