Heidi Heitkamp

I think many people on this panel understand the contribution that North Dakota is making to this entire industry.

This has basically ballooned into a full-blown, absolute, horrible crisis, especially in Indian Country but across the Country.

In fact, we have heard reports of women in Three Affiliated, that 50 percent of the babies are born from women who are addicted.

I hope the National Congress can work with us to get out the message.

The resources we are currently providing are not adequate to meet treaty obligations or fulfill our responsibility.

I think that is critically important, that we look beyond NAHASDA and look beyond what we are doing right now.

I want to say I applaud this Administration for doing the most that I have ever seen to try and coordinate among all of you to try and build relationships across the agencies to change outcomes.

Unfortunately, many tribal members do not. Somehow, we are missing that.

I will kind of warn you that I will continue to be a broken record as it relates to trauma as a potential path forward for change.

Let me tell you, if you want to see children born under conditions that they should not be born, come to any one of my reservations.

We have to change how we approach it and we have to look at a system that really treats the family.

If we are not pursuing state-of-the-art treatment options, then we are going to fail.

I just want to impress upon you that those folks are on the front line.

I am very interested in what kind of tunnel detection you have.

I think it would be good to do some kind of secured briefing on tunnel detection.

I think that we would all agree that marijuana is basically carried across.

I want to just reiterate the absolutely critical importance of getting more attention to the Northern Border.

I think that is an excellent answer, and as we look at criminal justice reform, whether we are able to do it or not, that is going to involves courts at all levels kind of reexamining the kinds of people who are entering the criminal…

I think I start out by just saying thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for everything that you do.

I join with my colleague and senior Senator, Mr. Hoeven, to honor and to bear witness to a great North Dakotan and a great officer of the Fargo Police Department, Jason Moszer, who lost his life in the line of duty. I begin by yielding the…

I think the industry is very interested in workforce safety. It is expensive not to be focused on workforce safety.

For our Nation to be successful and safe, for our citizens to be able to work hard and provide for their families, we need a regulatory process that works for American business and American families.

That means we need to have enforcement mechanisms to ensure everyone is playing by the same set of rules.

Why do you think everybody is so afraid of EPA?

I believe that ensuring regulated agencies and entities have the necessary resources and information to successfully comply with regulations should also be our top priority.