U.S. State Attorneys General

Modernization of NC3 systems is critical to the reliability and safety of our nuclear deterrent.

Climate change is threatening Hawaii's future freshwater security through sea level rise because we have the water table, increasing temperatures, increased strata, et cetera.

I am all for streamlining the process so that things and decision-making, that does not have to happen consecutively can happen on a parallel course.

How important is it for the Department to consider public input and project alternatives when dealing with such a sensitive and important resource as water?

I think this would be really terrific for a state like Hawaii then, because it is seven inhabited islands, each with their own water systems and within their locality.

I can certainly understand Alaska's interest in being eligible for these grants as we in Hawaii have been interested in expanding eligibility to entities in our state as well.

I think we are going in the wrong direction. So I want to ask you, why are we doing that? Why?

This budget goes in totally the wrong direction by cutting 66 percent for renewable energy and energy efficiency and 60 percent for electric grid modernization.

I introduced the Next Generation Electric Systems Act last Congress was to support public-private partnerships.

I would like to see that kind of data and information presented to this Committee in the future.

We often hear and we say frequently that we owe veterans a debt of gratitude that we will never be able to fully repay.

I am disappointed that the Senate is likely to pass this bill today, and I can promise this committee that I will do everything in my power to stop it when it comes over to the House.

This bill increases the chance of another crash and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the bill will increase the likelihood of another bailout.

Just 10 years after big banks crashed the economy, Senate Republicans and some Dems want to roll back the rules that we put in place to prevent the next crash.

It is the largest investment in these three areas ever made, but it isn't an investment unless the money actually materializes.

Based on everything we know about this Administration's views on climate change, it would comport with the view that words such as 'climate change' would not be included in press releases from your Department.

I am asking you whether the words 'climate change' are somehow not acceptable in your Department and your various releases.

Excuse me, I have to correct you, Mr. Secretary, because the paper's abstract did have that sentence which you excluded from your press release.

So I think it is an area we are working through. It is a challenge now.

I think if you are a Marine from Vietnam or World War II and you went into watching what the Marines were doing, you would have just been lost at what was going on with the amount of unmanned ground systems, vehicles that were in the air…

I completely agree. As we look at modernizing our four public shipyards, and I have met with many of our workers in our shipyards, they want to have the modern tools.

These threats require us to consider how we can ensure that the Navy and Marine Corps have the resources they need.

You have certainly kept a laser-beam focus on getting to a 355-ship Navy.

In my opening statement, I referred to the Navy's new plan for modernizing the public shipyards, of course, after years of neglect.