The rate of meth use among American Indians is the highest of any ethnic group in our country.
We cannot suffer another generation and sacrifice them to methamphetamines.
We have mothers giving their children away for sexual favors for drugs.
I am beyond frustrated. I asked the FBI Chairman in this room to come to North Dakota to actually give us a plan.
Obviously, we hope that this oversight Committee hearing has at least raised some flags within the Social Security Administration.
We just do not have a comfort level both legally and in terms of due process with the direction you are taking.
Is this legal what you are doing? And are we buying, like the Chairman said, a lawsuit?
If it is just legal advice, then why privilege it? The taxpayers paid for it. Let us see it.
I guess what I am saying is we would prefer that you hit the pause button on this idea so that we can better understand the oversight, bette...
I think we are buying ourselves--I think our concern here is, No. 1, to understand your decisionmaking, and I applaud you.
But I am telling you that economists in North Dakota have looked at what would be, in fact, a 40-hour living wage for a single mom, and they...