Heidi Heitkamp

Senator Heitkamp and I introduced legislation so farmers and ranchers would be certain that this would not occur at any point in the future.

This idea that we are working on it in the face of these statistics is not an adequate response.

It is so important that we tell the stories and the truth about what really is going on.

The challenges faced by Native American children require urgent attention.

If we, the powerful government of the United States, cannot protect the poorest, most disenfranchised and most vulnerable of all people, then we are not worthy of the seats we are sitting in.

We know you feel our pain, we just want you to do something about it.

As the chairman knows, there have been concerns expressed in Indian Country that the IRS may take the occasion of passage of H.R. 3043 or S. 1507 to retrench, narrow or possibly withdraw the administrative guidance provided in Rev. Proc…

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it recess under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:04 p.m., recessed until Wednesday, September 17, 2014, at 10 a.m…

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I further ask unanimous consent that the committee-reported substitute amendment be agreed to, the bill, as amended, be read a third time and passed, and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, with no…

I further ask unanimous consent that the committee-reported substitute amendment be agreed to; the bill, as amended, be read a third time and passed; and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, with no…

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We somehow cannot seem to finish it, even though we have got great bipartisan support.

I was one of the advocates back in the 1990s of the privacy notices. I think now we have had this great experiment.

I think if we had a greater level of trust between the regulators and the regulated, I think that all of those things would answer the question.

These concerns just add to the weight of overall concerns and I think are resulting in consolidation of our small community banks

It is really critically important that we understand now one size fits all

We have got to act sooner rather than later because we are losing the lending lines in these institutions.

All the talk that we have here is not going to amount to anything if we actually do not get results out of this process.

The appraisal issue in rural communities is real

Too big to fail has become too small to succeed.

I believe the losses to producers are likely to exceed $100 million.

So as dire as that is, as that pile of wheat is, if those were soybeans basically what you've done is you've condemned that crop.

Our producers are in dire straits.

Collectively they have suffered a half a million dollar loss to their bottom line.