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.
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…
So it was OK to just sign your name on to them without doing the ethical--doing the appropriate investigation?
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…
Just imagine the moon. Imagine the moon. They will do whatever we want to do.
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.
It is not just these victims. It is crime against every person in this country.
One of the things that we did in domestic violence is we began to prosecute cases without victim testimony.
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.





