Thank you, and I thank the Chairwoman's leadership in the wildfire issue.

Do you have enough money in your Fiscal Year '17 budget proposal to do the kinds of things that you are doing because it is not just happening in Hawaii.

I did want to take a moment to thank you for your commitment to protecting Hawaii's precious landscapes in the President's 2017 budget.

There is nothing like actually visiting a place to gain a fuller, I think, appreciation of what is going on.

Thank you very much, Chief, for making the clear connection between climate change and the continuing challenges of fighting forest fires.

While law enforcement resources are being cut off, law enforcement officers are being blocked from doing their jobs, and drug prosecutions are being reduced, the administration and some in Congress want to push and advance a criminal…

Madam President, I would like to talk for a few minutes about the crime problem we have in America today, the dramatically increasing problem of heroin abuse. Over the last week, we have had a lot of discussion about this crisis, which I…

In the absence of it, we basically allow the State Department, with all their good intentions, to decide what is the course without congressional direction and oversight.

I support the State Department budget. I would like to have this committee create some structure for it.

It is difficult for us to do our job in Congress without truly acting as your representatives.

I passed my first bill in the House of Representatives out of the Small Business Committee

Thank you, and I yield back.

I am especially looking forward to hearing from our panel to learn how we can get new companies interested in the programs.

your leadership on this Subcommittee and your leadership on the Committee at large means a lot to me as a freshman

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ann, in our compelling and lengthy testimony, you mentioned that there are different agencies that oversee programs.

I look forward hearing the personal stories of our witnesses as to how these programs have allowed them to contribute to our community.

these programs have helped launch tens of thousands of successful research projects

I hope that today's hearing can shed light on some of the issues small businesses face in this program to help us identify ways to improve these programs during the upcoming reauthorization.