Kevin Cramer

The irony is rich beyond rich with me.

I will submit to you that I have fewer choices on the platform--in your type of a platform than I do internet service providers even in rural North Dakota.

I do expect it to be a higher priority than conservative thought.

Don't eat the fruit of this tree is the only regulation that was ever initiated before people started abusing freedom.

I do worry about the general bias of people in Silicon Valley, but the majority of the folks doing content review are around the world in different places.

Don't you think that ubiquitous platforms like Google and Facebook and many others should have the same responsibility to privacy as an internet service provider?

I think state policy does matter. And while I agree that communities ought to have some competitiveness about how they-- and some control over their own regulation, there should be a minimum standard that makes sure that the country is…

I share all of your concerns with what's going on with regard to NAFTA.

What I would love to do is be able to maybe have a meeting with my attorney general and you and me.

It was the Department of Justice attorneys that argued so effectively against the State of North Dakota.

I appreciate your commitment to process and rule of law.

Thank you for going to places like Oklahoma and to North Dakota.

What for the last 8 years has simply been a dictatorship by the EPA.

You see states as stakeholders and partners not as subordinates.

Thank you for your candor, for being here, and for your strong leadership.

I worry about the early shutdown, the forced shutdown, frankly, of base load generation, especially with plants that have useful life left in them.

So my message this morning, on the heels of these disasters, is let's do more working together, everyone in the utility industry, the scientists we have out there, and take this on. This is a real call to action.

The larger concern is just what seems to be a lack of communication discipline coming out of the White House. And I think some of that is driven by the desire to have an immediate response to everything.

Can we find ways or even substantiate that interagency collaboration and cooperation can accomplish two goals.

I think Ms. Castor makes a relevant point admonishing us to see how the FPISC process works.

I appreciate what Mr. McNerney said earlier about, you know, we will never solve this if one side imposes its will on the other.

The importance of a coalition cannot be overstressed.

We are first, foremost and always an agrarian state obviously.

Let's commit at least to that, to providing more opportunities to provide jobs that I think could cure a lot of the social challenges, as well as the relationship challenges, that we seem to be facing today.

We have introduced this year legislation similar to what he wanted in the Keystone pipeline to encourage the unions.