Heidi Heitkamp

It is always a little difficult for me when somebody comes with the argument, look how insignificant it is in the real world, 2 percent, and then says, but it is catastrophic to the free enterprise system.

We have got to reauthorize the Eximbank before the end of the year, or before the end of this month, or else we have crated a huge disruption.

This will cost U.S. exports, make no mistake, and the jobs that they support.

I think there is no question that small business is a huge beneficiary.

There are obviously people here in the Congress who want to put a stake through the heart of the Eximbank.

I think we have to start with training supervisors to deal with conflict, to try and take corrective action.

We have to be very careful of, that when we set goals and aspirational kind of benchmarks, that we do not create fraud in achieving those marks.

I think that you can, of course, look at the economics, but at the end of the day--and being a mother of two Millennials, I think that what they are looking for is job satisfaction.

We have to do a better job, I think, recruiting, training, and retaining the young people of America.

I think that this is such a critical topic, and I am passionate about making sure that the workforce of tomorrow is the Federal workforce that can meet the needs of the constituency groups.

I think the real challenge here is selecting the right supervision.

It was a reward system gone awry, is what it was.

We do not connect these jobs and these categories that we all talk about... but we do not connect them to the larger mission.

I am wondering if you could discuss how the regulation has or has not been helpful in terms of creating cases and moving towards prosecution of bad actors.

I could not agree with you more, but to appreciate and understand that that communication is a critical part of truly understanding the transaction.

The great concerns that the American public has with the whole system of what happened in 2008... is that all of the bad actors... do not ever seem to be prosecuted.

Having appropriate end-user provisions is absolutely critical to that tool that is essential to the success of their organizations.

I think it is critically important that you begin almost immediately to address some of the lines of authority.

How do we know it is not going to get wasted?

The message they get every day is that they are not really worthy, they are somehow less than other kids, because we would never let this happen in a public school in North Dakota.

I don't think anyone can look at these pictures and read the GAO report and expect that children who go to school in that kind of physical plant can feel valued or appreciated.

We can't fix this problem without resources.

The federal government has a responsibility to support Indian education.

But, I think you take my point seriously, which is we have fraud, but we also have a lot of kids who go home hungry and that has got to be part of this discussion.

I think anything that you can do that would be helpful to address the concerns of rural America as it relates to homeland security.