Heidi Heitkamp

It is critical that the American public understand that what small business does is not just create jobs.

I think it is very important that...deeply concerned about our deficit, deeply concerned about our opportunity.

I cannot begin to tell you the significance of the SBA loan guarantees in terms of innovation in our state.

We have not done a very good job talking about how sequestration has resulted, in a very real way, delayed maintenance that is going to cost us money.

This is very concerning to me--that we are contracting capital.

I think that this is such a great point about doing things in Congress in regular order.

And how have you found in comparison with traditional outreach versus how you are doing it now? What is the damage?

I guess I applaud all those efforts, but my question is, what more could you be doing to help small business weather this storm?

Sharing that risk on innovation is absolutely critical.

The uncertainty of knowing where these cuts are coming from... has created tremendous uncertainty for small business.

But what did the agency do, or what did DOD do, to mitigate those effects--look at lower cost options, look at ways to do outreach that may not be consistent with the traditional programs that you would use to do the outreach?

And I would suggest to you that the lack of enforcement of existing regulations before Dodd-Frank is a critical component to bank failures.

The goal is every patient who walks into the Indian Health Service should be treated with respect, dignity, excellent customer service, and should receive the highest quality of health care.

Many of the Indian people who live on the reservation frequently go off using their own health insurance to receive services someplace else.

If we had enough resources, we could do amazing things but we need to have advocacy for those resources.

I would suggest that the ultimate measure of your success is the health of Indian people, not necessarily accreditation.

This is a critical disconnect if we are going to look at reforms.

We have made some progress but I feel we are just beginning to get to the important work of changing and improving the Indian Health Service.

None of us can be happy with those statistics because they indicate a systemic problem within Indian Country and certainly with the delivery of mental health services.

The job that you have is absolutely the most critical job to improving those conditions.

I consider it an ill thought-out policy response to a critical issue that the Supreme Court has said we need to take a different route on.

I think that development in North America will go a long way.

We would like to see things happen a lot faster, and my concern about sanctions is really achieving the new normal in Iran.

I think it results in an ineffective outcome.

I hear about clinics shutting down because they do not have the capacity and do not have the staff to even open up on a Friday.