If we had enough resources, we could do amazing things but we need to have advocacy for those resources.
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.
Many of the Indian people who live on the reservation frequently go off using their own health insurance to receive services someplace else.
The goal is every patient who walks into the Indian Health Service should be treated with respect, dignity, excellent customer service, and should receive the highest quality of health care.
The job that you have is absolutely the most critical job to improving those conditions.
Madam President, I would first like to thank the Senator from the great State of Michigan for her incredible leadership. I met her over a year ago and knew she was a force to be reckoned with, not only because she has red hair but because…
We would like to see things happen a lot faster, and my concern about sanctions is really achieving the new normal in Iran.
We do not want people who have chemotherapy who are entitled to veterans services to have to get on a bus and drive 10 hours.
Mr. President, yesterday I came to the floor of the Senate to talk not only about the farm bill, but specifically about the importance of the Sugar Program to the compromise that is the farm bill. I talked about growers getting protections…
I hear about clinics shutting down because they do not have the capacity and do not have the staff to even open up on a Friday.





