I think it is critical that we look for efficiencies, but I am always reminded of the story...
Heidi Heitkamp
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Heidi Heitkamp is an American politician and attorney who served as the United States Senator from North Dakota from 2013 to 2019. A member of the Democratic-NPL Party, she was the first woman elected to the Senate from North Dakota. During her tenure, Heitkamp focused on issues such as agriculture, energy, and rural development, advocating for policies that benefited her state's economy and communities.
I am very pleased that finally, after a lot of planning and a lot of discussion, we are holding this hearing entitled 'Understanding the Millennial Perspective in Deciding to Pursue and Remain in Federal Employment.'
Every month Senator Carper goes to the floor and puts up a picture and talks about an enormous contribution of Federal employee has made to the safety or security or just to improving the quality of life in America.
I mean, think, if you are sitting there and all of a sudden out of the blue you are trying to decide what to do, and you get an email from someone saying, 'Hey, I heard you are an aerospace graduate at UND. NASA has some openings.'
If in 2019, 30 percent of the workforce that is working today is not working, everybody retires when they can retire. Are you ready for that?
I would say there is no more critical place where you need to do that, because we absolutely need the best and the brightest in this terrific challenge that we have on cybersecurity.
I think we wait around for it to come to us, is my point, and we do not do enough to reach out.
But I think sometimes you take someone from Chicago and say here you are in Cavalier, North Dakota, and that is culture shock.
I think we want people to feel like this is not them asking for a job; this is them getting recruited to a job.
So how would you effectuate that, how would you implement that in Border Patrol?
You could really make a case that is a national security imperative, because you do not want those same folks using those incredible skills to go do something else.
How do we get this message into the community? And, how do we build those relationships long term?





