U.S. State Attorneys General

It is paramount that we uphold our promise to provide Native American children an excellent education that preserves their tribal heritage.

I think it is the best chance.

Where are the teeth to enforce that?

I think, for many of us, for us not to take an aggressive approach on currency manipulation is a nonstarter.

The state of BIE education is abysmal.

We were very pleased that Under Secretary Hickey instituted it; really went back and looked and saw that those claims for MST-related conditions were being processed at a lower rate for PTSD.

Those are the women who are actually accessing the system. I have a feeling it might be a higher percentage.

I think just within VA, because of the small percent and the statistical minority of women, only about 7 percent out of the six million veterans that VA treats, it is always difficult and a challenge with women veterans.

Now, Secretary McDonald has said that he would like to eliminate homelessness in veterans by 2015.

I think we should make it as simple as possible for people who are transitioning from active duty to veteran status to be able to access the information.

I particularly want to thank you for focusing on whether we are keeping our promises, as indicated in the hearing notice, to our women veterans.

I think there definitely is a connection between setting certain standards and the spurring of developments that would help us meet those standards.

I see that EIA projects that nationwide the U.S. will only achieve 18 percent renewable energy by 2040 if we continue our current policies.

We need to provide a lot more of that kind of focused attention, face time, acknowledgement of the importance of those alliances.

I would say the countries we are dealing with in TPP--they would be much better off in the kind of system that we are promoting as opposed to dealing with a huge, powerful entity like China.

I would like to see the U.S.-Philippine relationship grow much, much stronger.

The Southeast Asian allies and likeminded partners are going to be key going into the future.

It will be a long time before China is ready to be in something like TPP, but I think the Chinese leaders see momentum behind it.

We cannot let that happen. This is what we came to Congress to solve, at least for many of us, hopefully, Republicans and Democrats, so that we are not the first generation in American history to leave the next one worse off.

I would say that that is a priority.

If the fiscal year 2015 NDAA is executed and the transfer of AH-64 Apaches from the Army National Guard (ARNG) to the Active Component (AC) is not delayed or hindered in any way, AH-64 Apaches will arrive in Hawaii in May 2016.

Jungle Warfare training is an important capability which the United States has not had since the closure of the Jungle Training School in Panama.

I would like to keep it that way, coming from Hawaii as I do.

We had an Armed Services Committee hearing this morning talking about how important the Asia-Pacific area is to national security and the stability of that part of the world, as other parts of the world continue to be unstable.