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I would like to thank Senators Collins, King, and Markey for their close sponsorship of S. 683, my Keeping Our Commitment to Disabled Veterans Act, which would ensure coverage for around 350 veterans in Hawaii, some 20,000 veterans across…

Her masterful leadership creating common sense election reforms in Georgia led to models for the rest of the nation to follow.

Americans are apprehensive----and with good reason----that personal information, such as personal finances and medical records are susceptible to hacking.

I conclude that you do support the President's budget for Interior at this point with all of the cuts that many of my colleagues have pointed out.

I think that is very unfair to states such as Hawaii.

I will certainly be working with you all to make sure that we are, in fact, maintaining a level of activity in this area and research because $5.3 million is a relatively small amount and I think that it should be restored.

I believe that there is value in having the U.S. Forest Service invest in protecting Hawaii's forests.

The President's budget goes the other way.

I am here to share my serious concerns over the decision to exclude Native Hawaiian housing programs in S. 1275.

This body has a rich history of acknowledging that Native issues can rise above beltway party politics.

The health care crisis facing many IHS facilities in the Great Plains and throughout Indian Country is a concern this Committee takes very seriously.

Thank you, Senator Hoeven. Thank you to the witnesses for traveling to be with us today.

We must do all we can to make sure NAHASDA is fully reauthorized for all Native American communities that rely on its housing programs.

I ask this Committee to restore reauthorization for Native Hawaiian housing programs in NAHASDA.

I strongly oppose those suggestions and I believe that dividing Native communities is, frankly, unconscionable.

Restoring accountability in the Indian Health Service is not just the name of the legislation, but also the goal of this Committee.

I would also like to submit a longer statement for the record on behalf of the Hawaiian Congressional Delegation signed by Senators Schatz and myself...

This is about much more than just stripping out Native Hawaiian housing programs from a bill.

As both a doctor and a Senator, I find the level of dysfunction completely unacceptable.

It is a powerful message to bring together bipartisan leadership from two Senate committees in support of one goal, better serving Native veterans.

Serving Native Hawaiians is foundational to my service in the Senate.

I am certainly supportive because when you are talking about intermittent energy, storage is a huge part of how we can actually bring all of that online.

I think that is a rather tactful response because in the area of moving toward clean energy and energy self-sufficiency, tax credits and other kinds of support that governments at both the state and federal levels have been very much…

I think that working with their folks at headquarters--their superintendents, their regional directors--they're the people that are going to have to model the behavior in a very transparent and I would say, upfront and almost an aggressive…