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Sat Dec 8, 2018, 11:07 AM Dec 2018

Heitkamp plans to return to North Dakota, continue advocacy work after Senate term

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp isn’t sure what her next chapter will be, but she knows where it will unfold.

“I’m going to be back in North Dakota. Whatever I do, I’m going to be doing it from North Dakota,” Heitkamp said this week.

In an interview with The Bismarck Tribune, the Democrat reflected on her time in office that will end sooner than she hoped after her election loss to Rep. Kevin Cramer.

“It’s been a hard-fought campaign. Every day you get a chance to turn the page. This isn’t the last chapter,” Heitkamp said. “We’ll look for opportunities to do the stuff that we wanted to get done when we went to Washington, D.C. And a lot of that relates to the future of our children.”

Read more: https://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/heitkamp-plans-to-return-to-north-dakota-continue-advocacy-work/article_c05dc08d-d8f2-517b-b42a-0702f47be2d7.html

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