Heidi Heitkamp

I have not given up on my challenge of making sure that there is some oversight.

I would submit that a lot of small business feel like they are being left behind and their capitalization is restricted in ways that they do not understand.

I share my colleague's concerns about overregulation and the burden of regulation. I have been fighting regulation that makes no sense here in Congress, and so I agree with him. But that is not what we are talking about today. We are…

We would like to engage in a discussion of what this means to American workers, to American exports, and to American manufacturing. I think we have worked very, very hard over the last several months to try and move this nomination…

One of the things we are always going to ask about is consultation. It is the key to the relationship.

We cannot leave a community the size of Fort Yates unprotected.

There would not have been a 911 response which I think is terrifying.

It took out one of our communities and we had to do a lot of repair.

I will tell you I was shocked. I was just down at Fort Yates for a tribal visit.

However, if that fire started in Fort Yates on a structure, there is no first responder.

I do not want to belabor the point, but it is--and can be--a very effective tool at checkpoints--at border crossings.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And, thank you for stepping up and serving your country once again, Admiral.

So, would you not agree that it is a problem when--I think the number that was used was about a fourth of all cattle actually move through the market this way on a cash basis but yet establishes the price.

If you do not think we need to lower trade barriers, you are wrong, especially for the products that we grow in North Dakota.

If you think we can continue to be a country that is a dominant economic power without accessing markets, we are wrong.

I start every one of my discussions about trade saying 95 percent of all potential consumers in the world do not live in this country.

My main focus, I hope, will be on how do we get trust back into the cattle market.

I remain frustrated that we have not been able to really drill down and do a better job involving consumers in this discussion.

If your only response to this is, 'you do not need to know,' I will tell you, as producers, you will lose.

I would challenge you that as we are dealing with these challenges, you need to deal directly with consumer challenges.

I think there is--a huge problem has been the volatility in the Futures Board market.

I stand appalled, quite honestly, that your confirmation is pending.

I sleep easier knowing, Mr. Szubin, that you are on the job.

Our first children have become our last children.

We have to have you treat it at the Department of Justice like the crisis it is.