Stephanie Herseth Sandlin: “Today fewer than 3,000 law enforcement officers patrol more than 56 million acres of Indian Country.”

I was proud to work in a bipartisan manner in the Economic Opportunity Subcommittee on Rep. John Boozman's Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program Reauthorization Act of 2009.

Some of my goals for energy and climate change legislation include: protecting South Dakotans from a rise in electricity rates.

Given such success, I hope the VA and this Committee will strongly consider ways to expand this program's reach so more communities can benefit as Rapid City has.

I can assure you that we will continue to work together in bipartisan manner to review current programs, to determine if they meet the needs of veterans and their dependents, while we continue to look for new opportunities to strengthen…