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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.
we have been asked to vote on this. It is 20 pages--20 pages that we were just handed. We asked DOJ to help us analyze this so we can best evaluate whether that is a good vote. According to the DOJ, this would not stop them from denying…
I thank my colleague. Mr. President, I think for the first time in a long time, on a very, very contentious issue, we have an amazing group of Senators who have come together in a very bipartisan way to simply say that there is an…
I think that is something we can all agree on, and it is absolutely the best line of defense against future bailouts.
Can you walk me through how that requirement will be phased over the next few years, see what major risks all of that provides to community banks, and offer maybe some suggestion on how we can be more responsive to the legitimate concerns…
I think it would be a little bit of an exaggeration to say the savings and loan crisis had the same consequences and result as the crisis in 2008.
Why is it that we only have such a small percentage of the commitment for Rural Development that has been deployed to Indian Country directly?
I worry that if we are going to create economic opportunity in Indian Country, we need infrastructure.
I think the Chairman said $212 billion in loan guarantees with only $3.1 billion actually in Indian Country.
I have not given up on my challenge of making sure that there is some oversight.
I would submit that a lot of small business feel like they are being left behind and their capitalization is restricted in ways that they do not understand.
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