Heidi Heitkamp

Regional strategies may sound vague, but the main point is that they target resources to where they have the most impact locally.

I look forward to seeing him very soon across the table in the Ag Committee.

If you could guarantee that everyone would be as fit as you if they ate Tanka Bars----

What we want to do is build out that capacity of self-determination.

I did a little work on State taxation in Indian country. I would dispute some of your statements.

You do understand their problem with this distinction of public land versus tribal land?

I want to go back to Senator Tester's discussion about one stop shop and accommodating those concerns not from the standpoint of just ease of discussion but accountability of all those agencies to work together.

I think everyone wants to get out of the business of being paternalistic.

I think both of you acknowledge that this is land that first and foremost the tribes have primacy over.

I think one of the biggest complaints that I hear repeatedly in Indian country is that the system of Federal regulation treats these as if they were public lands and not tribal lands.

In November last year I went to the visit Cannon Ball Elementary School which is located within the Standing Rock reservation.

It would be critical and be a huge step forward if the appropriations would come and federally impacted schools are going to get their first payment as schools begin.

Thank you, Chairman Tester and Vice Chair Barrasso.

I want to thank the fire chief for your excellent work and for what you do every day to keep the citizens of your community safe.

I would be less concerned with that if I actually asked for it ahead of time and did not get it provided.

I share both the ranking member and the chairwoman's frustration in not getting a date certain.

We are still going to move crude on the rails.

This is a fact we can know. We can know what is in those tank cars.

What price gets me the cheapest gasoline? Right? You pull into that pump, and you say, 'This is what I am going to run.'

When is this product going to stand on its own feet and market itself in a way that does not require any Government mandates, any Government programs?

The single most important thing that we can do is make sure that the RFS continues to go forward.

We can dispel each one of those, but that is pervasive in my State, even in my State, which is an agricultural State.

It is clear from the testimony today that we are so far advanced in the technology of creating these fuels that our big problem is marketing these fuels.

Yes, it is important that we have accountability but it also is important that this money gets spent where the Congress intended and where the American people intended it to be spent and not on compliance burdens and unnecessary overhead.

We certainly support Senator Hoeven's intentions in introducing this bill.