I would also like to thank you for drafting and advocating for S. 246, 'The Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children.'

That's a huge resource for North Dakota.

I want to first thank all the tribal leaders, activists, providers, and community members for joining us today to discuss this critical issue.

Money must be allocated for tribal comprehensive trauma initiatives.

We can change it if we take this great science that's being done, great talents that are being developed in trauma informed and trauma based programs.

I am so honored to be hosting the field hearing in North Dakota to discuss how we can work together to address trauma in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

And you mean not in Washington DC, but actually on and in the trenches?

I come to the floor to urge all my colleagues to stop denying science and to start understanding that GMO ingredients are just as healthy for American consumers as any other ingredient. We all recognize that there are a fair number of…

I think one of the concerns are the nitpicking versus truly significant breaches of process.

There is an attempt to analyze and to know the rulemaking process so that everybody is playing from a level playing field.

I thank Senator Cantwell. That is why I am here. But I am also here to ask my colleagues to be empathetic, to understand what it would feel like if you were employed in a gas turbine business in one of the Carolinas and that business went…

Absolutely, and if we don't move with haste, if we don't supply on time, we won't get the business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The time of the Senator from North Dakota has expired.