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.
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.
There is an attempt to analyze and to know the rulemaking process so that everybody is playing from a level playing field.
I think one of the issues that we have is that--probably an unfair kind of analogy, but let's say you have five sisters and you all have photo albums, and one just throws them in a box and the other person, you know, has them indexed, you…
I think one of the concerns are the nitpicking versus truly significant breaches of process.
Why I think it is absolutely critically important to make this point, not just about what we produce but who produces it, is because at the end of the day, 95 percent of all potential consumers do not live in this country, and America…
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…
It is critical that we acknowledge this trauma and the role that we all played in it with these outdates policies.
It's crucial that we protect the rights and sovereignty of Native American tribes.
I want to congratulate Senator Rounds and Senator Lankford for bringing this issue to the forefront.
I think the most important thing that you can do during the time that you have left is pass along that learning, that 8 years an administration has, to the next administration so that we do not pick up from where we were before.
Before my comments, I would like to yield 2 minutes to the junior Senator from Arizona, who has been so instrumental in advancing this proposal. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arizona.





