Heidi Heitkamp

Let us not get out there with a 'gotcha.' Let us get out there and invest a lot of resources in meeting kind of compliance on the front end.

Without such tools, agencies have very little leverage in which to ensure the safety and health of our citizens and our environment.

I think we need to be very cautious in how we characterize monetary policy in other countries lest we not limit our access to tools that we may need.

There has been so little attention to the challenges of commodity producers.

We are deeply concerned about currency manipulation.

We need to be really careful when the response to wage inequality or income inequality is more skills for the workers.

She will hold people accountable who are not doing their job.

It is time that we take that expertise and that leadership that nurses show every day, put it in among the highest ranks.

There has to be more accountability in order to kind of tell the people that we serve, which are the taxpayers, that we are being fiscally responsible.

I just want to close with telling you how grateful I am that you are willing to take on this challenge, and I look so forward to working with you.

Police protection is poor, schools are not top notch, you have no place to live and the list goes on.

We have to be serious about fixing this problem. If we are serious about fixing this problem, we are going to be serious about funding the fix.

I am a big believer, as a lot of people at SAMHSA, a lot of people working on this, that we can do better in terms of treating the whole person.

I might suggest that in the future you not leave it up to just notifying the local people at the hospital.

I hope as we are looking at recruitment and retention, we are looking at recruiting a new kind of physician...

The point I am trying to make is that you all work under the same umbrella.

We need more people and we need more resources if we are going to have situational awareness on the border.

I want to know exactly what that means.

Maybe it will happen electronically or manually. I am not sure.

Is Canada looking at doing something like we did, which is say that, if you have been in Syria or if you have been in Iraq within the last 5 years, you actually have to apply for a visa?

And that is one of the concerns that I have.

This is why Senator Ayotte and I got together to, basically, introduce a piece of legislation to let us look at what the challenges are.

We have taken our eyes off of the Northern Border.

I think that there are a lot of us here who go into the secret, hidden room and hear things, only to walk out and see them on the front page of the New York Times.

This was your obligation to protect these children.