U.S. State Attorneys General

I hope that extends to advocating on their behalf and to say that this is not a time to be eliminating net neutrality.

Our immediate response has been focused on relief efforts, but these communities will require additional resources to recover from these disasters.

I want to continue to work with SBA to make sure that whatever resources can be provided to all those affected individuals and businesses can receive those resources.

So small businesses in all of these communities must completely rebuild, and they're severely impacted by losses in visitor revenue.

Everybody heard that? Okay.

Certainly, and we have a lot of 8(a) entities in Hawaii also, so we should contemplate a field hearing in Hawaii also.

I appreciate the fact that you spoke today about SBA's work helping businesses impacted by natural disasters because we've had a number of them, especially in the context of last year's hurricanes and floods, and you mentioned Hawaii.

I'll certainly continue to coordinate with Jane Sawyer of SBA.

If you were confronted with such a circumstance with this Administration, would you stand your ground?

I think it is really important for you to be, for your organization to be, in very close contact with the affected parties in a state in these kinds of exigent circumstances.

I think you are well aware that the history and culture in Hawaii is very different from that in Oklahoma or Florida or Maine or any of the indigenous peoples' culture.

I think that is a very clear example of one place being prepared in anticipation of the disaster and another hoping to get lucky and they did not get lucky.

So obviously there needs to be more coordination because we can expect various kind of weather conditions to be hitting simultaneously in all parts of the country and our territories.

Prior to Puerto Rico, the Corps had never repaired an electric power grid of this magnitude as part of a domestic disaster response and could not predict the assignment from FEMA to restore the grid.

I would want to work with you as to how to ameliorate those kinds of dramatic cuts to these programs.

Is that program going to be cut in the Fiscal Year '19 budget, Presidential budget?

The domestic spending is just as much a part of national security as the DoD side.

It's really important to me.

The big scandal is, you know, the larger question of abandoning environmental protection, actively working with polluters to make life easier and more profitable for them.

Yes, Scott Pruitt should resign. He's under investigation for as many as 10 different sorts of ethical lapses, of having -- gaining of discounted place from the lobbyist who has business before your agency to me alone is enough.

I am going to want to follow up with you, Ms. McDowall, but I am out of time, as to why these new screenings were implemented and to the extent that they seem to be motivated by political considerations.

I totally agree with that.

I think there needs to be a balance between acquiring these kinds of lands for preservation for future generations.

To encourage more drilling for oil and gas on public lands and offshore to pay for park deferred maintenance is, in my view, shortsighted and not the way to go.