I would welcome the opportunity to talk about what we need to do, because a lot of people do not understand jurisdictional challenges.
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.
You cannot protect a whole State when you have a huge amount of land and a huge opportunity for people who are peddling poison to basically go undetected.
There is no place in the United States where you have more responsibility than Indian country.
It's very telling when you have a Democrat Senator who is generally supportive of the EPA's efforts calling the final rule a 'slap in the face.'
To simply unilaterally, without comment or process, change the rules does not seem to be what a guidance should do.
We need to make sure that what we are doing with all of this body of work is not taking shortcuts.
Something that provides internal control, some kind of written policy on this is what we are going to do to review...
If we were in compliance before doing what we are doing, then how can we so dramatically be out of compliance right now?
We all agree, hopefully, here that a guidance does not have the full force and effect of law, right?
we have just heard what I think is almost a horror story from two great Senators, one representing 80 jobs, one representing maybe just dozens of jobs, but every one of those jobs matters in America. We come here every week and we say we…
But, we should know what those requirements are from both the statute and the substantive rulemaking, and when it seems like we cross that rubicon, when we stop thinking that this is helpful in interpretation and it seems to change the…





