Heidi Heitkamp

And when you don't do that, when you don't recognize you have a problem, then you have no solutions to that.

I don't think there is one Native American who lives in Indian Country who thinks that Indian Health Service is providing any kind of treatment for behavioral and mental health.

We don't have a strategy, we just have a series of events

We don't have a strategy, we just have a series of events. Right?

I think that is correct.

This can be done. It just takes some people who are going to be able to lead.

Indian Health has been unrelentingly unable to address health care crises in Indian Country.

Doing nothing will affect our national security, will affect our national energy interests, and fundamentally is not fair.

I could give you 50 ways that this policy is wrong on so many levels.

The United States of America, if you include natural gas liquids, is the number one producer of crude oil and natural gas liquids.

We believe commodities ought to find their market, and that is good for America.

It has been interesting, because there has been a lot of rewriting of history, I think, today.

We have an obligation to constantly look back on a regulatory scheme and say, is this working? Is this right?

We cannot simply just always put a monetary value and assume that we are going to achieve the intended result.

I think a lot of people think that is a gift that the United States Congress gave to the tribes, when in reality it is a restriction on the sovereign rights of tribes as outlined by the Cabazon case.

We have to start in a government-to-government respectful relationship.

There will not be a small seller exemption.

Do you not think one of the primary elements of taxation is that people who do exactly the same thing ought to share the exact same burdens?

If this case went to the Supreme Court again, he would vote the other way.

Obviously, the United States has elected not to do a Value Added Tax, although typically in Europe, a Value Added Tax is the major revenue producer for most of the countries.

The more international and the more national our businesses become, the more important it is to really level the playing field

Once again I see my good friend Senator Collins fighting for all of the good people of her State and all of our States and raising important issues--issues that I dealt with, quite honestly, quite a bit when I was attorney general of my…

I hope I get a better answer than Senator Portman.

We would not be setting any parameters.

Because these regulations frequently have opportunity costs, the ones that are harder to quantify and will result in change in behavior which will then have consequences of its own.