our own party, taking things on -- every single moment she overcome those challenges because heidi heitkamp is a leader. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. ms. collins: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from from maine. ms. collins: mr. president, as i listened to senator heitkamp's farewell remarks to us today, i could not help but think of the fact that she used her final speech on the senate floor, not just to talk about her accomplishments, of which there are many, but to inspire us. it was a call to action. it was a call to the better angels of ourselves to work together in the interests of our country. mr. president, maine and north dakota are separated by a great distance, but the people of our two states have in common the qualities about of hard work -- the qualities of hard work, a respect for tradition balanced by a spirit of innovation hand a belief in -- and a belief in personal responsibility, always tempered by compassion. during her years in the senate, heidi heitkamp has demonstrated those qualities time and again. she is passionate, as we heard to

democratic senator heidi heitkamp and dave brat t who were both defeated and darrell issa who is retiring after serve 18 years in the house. >> there was no interest in a bipartisan tax bill. we could have done some reforms of the healthcare bill. there was no interest in doing reforms of healthcare because it was all about winning politically and not governing in a sustainable way, and those are regrets that i have. >> ideas matter to me and you try to get ideas in the press and they don't care. it's worse than they don't care. they're against your ideas and they put them down. they cannot name a substitute that is better. they don't have an alternative hypothesis and that's just for me an intellectual fraud. and i think that's what the press is engaged in right now. >> most people think term limits sound like a good idea. first of all, leadership has no term limit us. nancy pelosi will probably be over 100 by the time she finishes her last time as speaker if nothing changes the challenge is that all of leadership has no term limits. well, chairmen have term limits and back whiff newt gi

. >> north dakota senator heidi heitkamp lost her reelection bid to kevin cramer. series of interviews with outgoing members of congress, we talk about her six years in the senate. this is 30 minutes. one of theheitkamp, speeches in the video library, speech, it got rather emotional. what were you thinking?

then, outgoing democratic senators claire mccaskill and heidi heitkamp reflect on their elections, their time in congress and what their rty needs to do next. plus, the last ship in therr mediteean helping migrants ceases operations due to political pressure by european governments, leaving many stranded. >> the aquarius has saved about 30,000 lives over the last three years. people that without th dedicated search and rescue capability on the mediterranean iesea would otherwise haveas they undertook that perilous journey. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been pr by: >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic perfmance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> carnegie corporation of new york. supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement, anthe advancement international peace and security. at carnegie.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions:in anviduals. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. u

democratic senator heidi heitkamp and republican representative -- and darrell issa who is retiring after serving 18 years in the house. >> i think we could've gotten a bipartisan tax bill passed. i think there was no interest in doing a bipartisan tax bill. i think we could have done reforms of the health care bill. there was no interest in doing reforms of health care because it was about winning politically and not governing in a sustainable way. those are regrets i have. >> ideas matter to me and you'd try to get ideas into the press. they do not care. they are against your ideas and they put them down. they cannot name a substitute that is better. they do not happen alternative hypothesis. that is an intellectual fraud. i think that is what the press is engaged in. >> most people think term limit sound like a good idea. leadership has no term limits. nancy pelosi will probably be over 100 by the times she finishes her last time as speaker if nothing changes. the challenge is that all leadership has no term limits. chairman have term limits. all the way back to newt gingrich, what hap

. >> north dakota senator heidi heitkamp lost her reelection bid to kevin cramer. our series of interviews with outgoing members of congress, we talk about her six years in the senate. this is 30 minutes. one of theheitkamp, speeches in the video library, speech, it got rather emotional. what were you thinking? thought iitkamp: i hope i can get through this. i was lucky my colleagues came to cheer me on. it was an opportunity to talk about the experience of being a senator and putting it in a perspective how i approached it. the kindt the need for of change that is going to move the senate forward. part of the easy speech. recognizing staff and people. >> on election night, what were you thinking? sen. heitkamp: i didn't expect the margin. i admit that. i knew that this was a tough race. if all the stars aligned, i could pull it out. it was not a shock to me when i lost. >> what does this tell you about the demographics of north dakota? sen. heitkamp: it tells me it has gotten more conservative. if you look at polling data from ran toiran -- the time i 2018, an add

but in "the year of the woman," two prominent female senators, democrats heidi heitkamp of north dakota and clair mccaskill of missouri, are packing up their washington offices this week and heading back to the midwest after bruising re-election losses last month. in a wide-ranging and revealing coeyersation earlier today, shared their thoughts on washington's dysfunction, working with the president and the future of the democratic party, but i started by asking them if the sting has lessened any, how they'retbandling the k. >> listen, i'm a cmpetitive person and, obviously, it stinks to lose.f and,ourse, i didn't want to lose. but i feegreat about what's around the corner, and i feel t good about time i've spent in the public eye. and iam definitely ready to move on. >> woodruff: what about you senator height camp? >> oh,h ik i'm sadder than claire. out she had six more years to d amazing things on behalf of the people of missouri and thisan countrd it would have been nice to get six more years. but with that said, both of us have lost before, so we know what that feels like. >> woodru

then, outgoing democratic senators claire mccaskill and heidi heitkamp reflect on their elections, theire in congress and what their rty needs to do next. plus, the last ship in therr mediteean helping migrants ceases operations due to political pressure by european governments, leaving many stranded. >> the aquarius has saved about 30,000 lives over the last three years. people that without th

. >> north dakota senator heidi heitkamp lost her reelection bid to kevin cramer. senator heitkamp sat down with c-span for an interview to reflect on her career and time in the u.s. senate. this is 25 minutes. >> senator heitkamp, one of the speeches in the c-span video library, your farewell speech, it got rather emotional. what were you thinking? sen. heitkamp: i thought i hope i can get through this. i was so grateful that so many of my colleagues came to cheer me on. this was an incredible opportunity to talk about the experience of being a senator and putting it in a perspective that reflects how i approached it. and talk about the need for the kind of change that is going to move the senate forward. that was the easy part of the speech. the toughest was recognizing staff and people. >> on election night, what were you thinking? sen. heitkamp: i didn't expect the margin. i admit that. i knew that this was a tough race. i knew if all the stars aligned, i could pull it out. it was not a shock to me when i lost. >> what does this tell you about the demographics

. >> north dakota senator heidi heitkamp lost her reelection bid to kevin cramer. senator heitkamp sat down with c-span for an interview to reflect on her career and time in the u.s. senate. this is 25 minutes. >> senator heitkamp, one of the speeches in the c-span video library, your farewell speech, it got rather emotional. what were you thinking? sen. heitkamp: i thought i hope i can get through this. i was so grateful that so many of my colleagues came to cheer me on.

eastern, conversations with three retiring members of congress, democratic senator heidi heitkamp, and republican representatives dave brat, both defeated in the, and after serving the 18 years in the house. >> we could have gotten a bipartisan tax bill fast. there was no interest in doing a bipartisan tax bill. we could have done some reform to the health care bill. there was no interest in reforms of health care, because it was about winning politically and not governing in a sustainable way. those are regrets that i have. >> ideas matter to me. you try to get ideas out in the press and they don't care. and are against your ideas they put them down. they cannot name a substitute that is better. they don't have an alternative hypothesis. that is an intellectual fraud. i think that's what the press is engaged in right now. term limitsle think sound like a good idea. leadership has no term limits. nancy pelosi will probably be over 100 by the time she finishes her last time as speaker if nothing changes. the challenge is that all of leadership has no term limits. chairman have term limi

and the american dream in her book behold america in her farewell speech north dakota senator heidi heitkamp discussed her time in the senate into some of the causes she's advocated. senator heitkamp lost her bid in november. this is half an hour in 2000 i was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer and after my treatment my oncologist told me you have had a chance of livine than ten years. think about that. so i knew right away i had a chance to use the time god gave me for good and noble purposes to try to do the things i always thought needed to be done in this country and it's an important lesson for all of you. the greatest gift you have is not your bank account. the greatest gift you have is the amount of time you have left on this earth and what you do with it. and i chose to come to the senate. i think when we have a world of options and make this choice that is so important that we come here with purpose not just to be named a senator or for office but for purpose. so the truth is i'm not supposed to be here. i'm from north dakota it is a town of 90 people. when i was growing up my

. >> senator heidi heitkamp lost her bid for re-election and next she delivers her farewell peech. senator heitkamp: thank you. in 2000 i was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer and after treatment my oncologist told me you have a 28% of chance living more than 10 years. think about that. i knew right away that i had a chance to use what time god gave me for good and noble purposes. to try and do the things that i always thought needed to be done in this country and it's an important lesson for all of you. the greatest gift you have is not your bank account. your greatest gift that you have is the amount of time you have left on this earth. and what you do with that time. i chose for good or bad to come to the united states senate. i think when we have a world of options and we make this choice it is so important that we come here with purpose. not just to be named senator not just for the trappings of office but for purpose. the truth is i'm not supposed to be here. i'm from a town of 90 people in north dakota. when i was growing up my family was one-tenth of the population.

democratic senator heidi heitkamp and republican representative dave brat, both defeated in the midterms, and darrell issa, retiring after serving 18 years in the house. >> we could have gotten the tax bill passed. there was no interest in a bipartisan tax bill. we could have done some reforms of the health care bill. and there was no interest in doing reforms of health care, because it was about winning and not governing in a sustainable way. those are regret i have. >> ideas matter to me. you try to get ideas in the press and they don't care. it's worse than they don't care, they are against your ideas and they put them down. they cannot name a substitute that is better. they don't have an alternative hypothesis. that is an intellectual fraud. that's what the press is engaged in, unfortunately. >> most people think term limits sound like a good idea. leadership has no term limits. will probably be over 100 by the time she finishes her last time as speaker if nothing changes. that oldenge is leadership has no term limits. chairman have term limits. all the way back with newt wegrich, wh

then a series of congressional exit interviews starting with senator heidi heitkamp from north dakotahe government shutdown will continue past the christmas holiday as the senate and house have ended their sessions. no legislative business is scheduled until thursday. watch live house coverage on c-span and the sene

. >> senator heidi heitkamp lost her bid for re-election and next she delivers her farewell peech. senator heitkamp: thank you. in 2000 i was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer and after treatment my oncologist told me you have a 28% of chance living more than 10 years. think about that. i knew right away that i had a chance to use what time god gave me for good and noble purposes. to try and do the things that i always thought needed to be done in this country and it's an important lesson for all of you. the greatest gift you have is not your bank account. your greatest gift that you have is

i think it hurt joe donnelly and heidi heitkamp, who also lost their seats. their votes so much, but because of the spectacle and the unfair treatment of both judge kavanaugh and christine ford, who asked specifically that her allegations be kept confidential and be handled in a closed session. >> martha: you want to st. lawrence university, as did i. a letter was circulated, 1500, something like that, the festers and alumni, wrote a scathing letter saying they wanted to rescind the two honorary degrees they had given you at your university. in the past had heralded you for your bipartisan decisions. >> it was a very painful experience, because i loved my time at st. lawrence. when i was at st. lawrence, free and open debate was encouraged, diverse viewpoints were welcomed, and i could not help but think what has happened, and our students who have more conservative viewpoints discriminated against by professors who say there is only one way to think? did they not respect the process that i went through, which i think everyone would concede was extremely thor

heidi heitkamp beat the odds to get here. a breast cancer survivor. the lesson she learned from that experience was to use what shiem hea has been given for good and noble purposes, and she chose for good or for bad to come to the united states senate and has served a noble purpose with noble actions. we are so grateful that she did. heidi has been a tireless champion of north dakota throughout her time in the senate. she worked hard to advance opportunities for native americans and veterans, to boost funding for flood protection, and to secure the northern border, to name just a few. she and i worked together on the banking, housing, and urban affairs committee. most recently, i was particularly appreciative of her insight on proxy access and her support for my legislation on this matter, s. 3614, the corporate governance fairness act. heidi has also been a relentless advocate for a functioning export-import bank, an issue critical to many north dakotans. her voice and insight will be missed on this issue and so many others that come before the banki

heidi heitkamp lost in north dakota.eady receding to the coast, even more so now. so can the democratic party be viable without appealing to the interior of the country where you live and where you represent? >> i don't know how you do that. i mean, i was fortunate enough -- i got more votes in this midterm than any democrat in indiana in modern history. but it wasn't quite enough, because the president came three times in about the last week, six times in about the last month and a half. and said this is about him. and he said, if you don't vote, basically, you're betraying me. and we have not made enough of a connection. i work like a dog nonstop to make that connection. but that the people of my state understand that culturally, we want to make sure you succeed. that we're going to fight to make sure that, for instance, on student loans, we'll keep the interest rate at the same rate as a housing loan. but when you talk medicare for all like i heard on the panel earlier, you start losing the people in my state. when we

we'll talk later about claire claire mccaskill and heidi heitkamp, that we need to pay attention to the moderates. this country is full of moderates. just because some progressives are screaming at you loudly doesn't mean we are a party that wants to abolish ice. that's how we stand for. there are other ways to secure our border than putting up a wall, that can be used, frankly, as a racist dog whistle on the campaign trail. that's what they object to. >> melissa: morgan, real quick. >> morgan: i have an excessive shoe collection. if they don't take a radical position, i will eat this farragamo. [laughter] >> melissa: the presses inside one of the signing ceremonies inside the white house. i will be willing to bet good money that the president will not be willing to resist making some, about what's going on right now with this thing over the border wall and funding. as soon as you get that video, that take playback, we are going to play to the second we have it. meanwhile, growing divisions among democrats the head of the new congress. democratic senator at claire mccaskill, who lost he

easternday at 8:00 p.m. , conversations with three retiring members of congress, democratic senator heidi heitkamp and dave brat, who were both defeated in the midterms. >> i think we could have gotten a bipartisan tax bill passed. i think there was no interest in doing a bipartisan tax bill. i think we could have done some reforms of the health care bill. there was no interest in doing reforms of health care, because it was all about winning politically, and not governing in a sustainable way. those are regrets that i have. >> ideas matter to me. he tried to get ideas out in the press and they don't care. and it's worse that they don't care, they are against your ideas, and put them down. they cannot name a substitute that is better, right.

[inaudible conversations] >> in her verbal speech north dakota senator heidi heitkamp discussed her time innocent and some of the causes she is advocated. she lost a reelection bid in november. this is half an hour. you.ank in 2000 i was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer. i got done with treatment my oncologist told me you have 28% chance of living more than ten years. i loved that. so i knew right away that i do chance to use what time god gave me a for good and noble purpose, to try into the things that i i was not needed to be done in this country. and it's an important lesson for all of you. the greatest gift you have is not your bank account, your greatest gift that you have is the amount of time you have left on this earth. and what you do with that time. and i chose for good or bad to come to the united states senate. i think, i think when have a world of options and we make this choice, it is so important that we come here with purpose. not just to be named a a senat. not just for the office but for purpose. so the truth is i'm not supposed to be here. i am from north dako

saturday at 8:00 eastern conversations with three retiring members of congress, democratic senator heidi heitkampnd republican representative dave bratt who were both defeated in the midterms and their allies the who is retiring after serving 18 years in the house. >> we could have gotten a bipartisan tax bill passed. i think there was no interest in doing a bipartisan tax bill. i think we could have done some reforms of the healthcare bill. there was no interest in doing reforms because it was all about winning politically and not governing in a sustainable way. those are regrets that i have. >> ideas matter to me and you try to get ideas in the press and they don't care. they are against your ideas and they put them down and they cannot name a substitute that is better. they don't have an alternative hypothesis. it is an intellectual pride -- fraud and that is what the president did. >> most people think term limits are like a good idea. leadership has no term limits. nancy pelosi will probably be over 100 by the time she finishes as speaker if nothing changes. the challenge is all of leadershi

heidi heitkamp had a childhood that sounds like it was ripped from the pages of a frontier epic. she grew up as one of seven kids born over nine years in a house with three bedrooms, in a town with a population south of 100. do the math. that means that around one-tenth of the town were heitkamps. inside the household the lack of space meant that heidi's room was also her brother's room and also the laundry room. according to her sisters, the presence of the lawn did i machine had -- laundry machine had almost no effect on her. she'd read and read and reasoned rarely if ever did she participate in the washing and folding of the heitkamp laundry. her siblings didn't seem to mind, as julie heitkamp said about growing up with heidi, she was so good, it was annoying. it turned out that the book worm from a small town in north dakota was destined for great things. when she worked for senator kent conrad, the outstanding democrat from north dakota, he realized the same goodness in heidi that her sisters recognized, and he encouraged her to run for state auditor at the age of 28. she di

. >>> saturday at 8 pm eastern, conversations with retiring members of congress, heidi heitkamp, dave brat, who were both defeated in the midterms and another who is retiring after serving 18 years in the house. >> i think we could've gotten a bipartisan tax bill passed. i think there was no interest in doing a bipartisan textile.i think we could've done some reforms of the healthcare bill, there was no interest in doing reforms with healthcare because it was all about winning, politically. and not governing in a sustainable way. and those are regrets i have. >> ideas matter to me and you try to get ideas out here in the press and they don't care and it's worse that they don't care they are against your ideas and they put them down. and they cannot name a substitute that is better. they don't have an alternative hypothesis. so that is an intellectual fraud and i think that is what the press is engaged in right now. unfortunately. >> most people think term limits so make a good idea, personal leadership has no term limit. nancy pelosi will probably be over 100 by the time she finishes

and the american dream in her book behold america in her farewell speech north dakota senator heidi heitkamp discussed her time in the senate into some of the causes she's advocated. senator heitkamp lost her bid in november. this is half an hour in 2000 i was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer and after my treatment my oncologist told me you have had a chance of livine than ten years. think about t

. >> north dakota senator heidi heitkamp lost her reelection bid to kevin cramer. as part of our series of interviews with outgoing members of congress, we talk about her six years in the senate. this is 30 minutes. >> senator heitkamp, one of the speeches in the video library, your farewell speech, it got rather emotional. what were you thinking? sen. heitkamp: i thought i hope i can get through this.

i've had the privilege with serving with both the speakers i heard today, heidi heitkamp from north dakota and senator donnelly from indiana. i want to say they represent the best of the senate. all of us are proud to be here. all of us are proud for the opportunity we have. but they are two special people, they are special because they have a smile on their face. they're special because they're very smart. they're special because they know how to play the game in a bipartisan way but not block things but help them pass. i've enjoyed getting to know joe and heidi. i'm going to miss them a lot. america is proud to have a great son like joe, a great daughter like heidi. i'm h glad to have them cross my way so i could become a friend of theirs. god bless you for your service. thank you very much. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from inn. mr. young: i rise to recognize my distinguished colleague joe donnelly for his years of distinguished service to the state of indiana. i also want to commend his family for their dedication. i know this is a team effort in public

this bill, which was introduced by senators pat roberts and heidi heitkamp, re-authorizes grants to state offices of rural health. i also need to thank our house champion of this effort, representative mullin, a veryable member of the health subcommittee. this legislation has already passed the senate and today we have the opportunity to pass it on the floor of the house, and it goes down to the president for his signature. the majority of counties in the united states are rural. while urban and suburban counties are growing in population, certainly in my own community, back in the 26th district of texas, we have a significant percentage of the population living in rural areas. citizens of rural america reap many benefits of their communities, but they are also faced with unique challenges, particularly when it comes to health care. s. 2278 will enable states to maintain and improve upon health care in rural areas by re-authorizing grants to state offices of rural health care. grantees will be required to maintain a clearinghouse for collecting and disseminating information on rural healt

eastern, conversations with three retiring members of congress, democratic senator heidi heitkamp, and republican representatives dave brat, who were both defeated in the midterms and daniel issa, retiring after serving 18 years in the house. >>i think we could have gotten a bipartisan tax bill passed. i think there was no interest in doing a bipartisan tax bill. i think we could have done some reforms of the health care bill. there was no interest in doing reforms of health care. because it was all about winning politically. and not governing in a sustainable way. and those are regrets that i have. >> ideas matter to me. and you try to get ideas out up here in the press, and they don't care. and it is worse than they don't care, they're against your ideas. and they put them down. and they cannot name a substitute that is better. right? they don't have an alternative hypothesis. and so that's just, for me, an intellectual fraud. and i think that's what the press is engaged in right now, unfortunately. >> most people think term limits sound like a good idea. first of all, leadership has

heidi heitkamp and republican brat, whotive dave were both defeated in the midterms, and darrell issa, who is retiring. >> i think we could have gotten a bipartisan tax bill passed. i think there was no interest in doing a bipartisan tax. i think we could have done some reforms of the health care bill. there was no interest in doing reforms of health-care because it was all about winning politically. and not governing in a sustainable way, and those are regrets that i have. >> ideas matter to me. and you try to get ideas out up in the press, and they don't care. it is worse than they don't care. they are against your ideas and they put them down. and they cannot name a sense that is better. have an alternative hypothesis, so that is just, for me, intellectual fraud, and i think that is what the press is engaged in right now, unfortunately. >> most people think tournaments sell my good idea -- term limits sell micro good idea. nancy pelosi will be over 100 by the time she finishes her last term as speaker if nothing changes. the challenge is that all of leadership has no term limits. c