{"id":114709,"date":"2017-01-17T16:28:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T22:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=114709"},"modified":"2017-01-17T22:11:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T04:11:20","slug":"heitkamp-meets-with-v-p-elect-pence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=114709","title":{"rendered":"Heitkamp meets with V-P Elect Pence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104345\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PenceMike-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"PenceMike\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PenceMike-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PenceMike-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PenceMike.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong>Washington (CSi)<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp issued the following statement after she had a one-on-one meeting today in her office with Vice President-elect Mike Pence at his request.<\/p>\n<p><em>**Click here for <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/sdmc-media.senate.gov\/HEITKAMP\/011717_Heitkamp_Pence.mp3\">audio<\/a>**<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cVice President-elect Pence and I had a solid meeting about the need for bipartisanship as the new administration soon starts,\u201d said Heitkamp. \u201cHe\u2019s from a rural state that is similar to North Dakota and filled with farming communities. We talked about the importance of passing a strong Farm Bill in 2018 \u2013 which is my top priority in the U.S. Senate \u2013 to support farmers and ranchers, and making sure there\u2019s an orderly transition in federal law enforcement as local law enforcement and protestors are still on the ground in North Dakota. We also discussed the need to work together to advance North Dakota\u2019s and the country\u2019s interests. I look forward to working with him and the new administration and maintaining an open dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington (CSi)\u00a0 U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp issued the following statement after she had a one-on-one meeting today in her office with Vice President-elect Mike Pence at his request. **Click here for audio** \u201cVice President-elect Pence and I had a solid meeting about the need for bipartisanship as the new administration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114723,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114709\/revisions\/114723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}