
Today I rise in support of all women across the Nation, to ensure they will be paid fairly based on their work performance, not their gender. Mr. Speaker, I am blessed with three young daughters. My oldest daughter, `Ale'aokalani, who, as…
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Today I rise in support of all women across the Nation, to ensure they will be paid fairly based on their work performance, not their gender. Mr. Speaker, I am blessed with three young daughters. My oldest daughter, `Ale'aokalani, who, as…

On April 15, 2021, I was unable to vote on the first three votes in the series because I had unavoidable conflict. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 104; H.R. 1215, the Fraud and Scam Reduction Act; YEA on Roll…

President Biden has laid out his vision of how investing in new clean energy technologies will help build the middle class in America and expand economic opportunity.

Yes, I think if we are looking ahead, we are going to be looking to non-fossil fuel kinds of energy sources.

on March 29, Vilma Kari was walking to church near Times Square in Manhattan when a man pushed her to the ground and violently assaulted her in broad daylight. A silent video of the incident captured by a security camera inside a luxury…

I am for these national kinds of standards that will encourage the private sector to step up.

The National Climate Assessment released in 2018 estimated $500 billion in lost economic output annually by the year 2100 due to global warming at or above two degrees Celsius.

Mass transit remains our best current and especially long-term option to provide efficient and reliable transportation in our urban core.

As an island State, Hawaii is uniquely challenged by the growing threats of climate change.

I urge the Committee to continue to support new technologies and strategies and projects to meet this challenge.

It is a critical decision not just for Puerto Rico but for our country.

Aloha and mahalo for the opportunity to update the committee on key transportation and infrastructure issues and needs from my home State of Hawaii.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the disparities in health care access for Native communities.

They started the rollout of some of the most successful vaccine campaigns in the Country.

Despite decades of underfunding and almost zero access to critical pieces of our national health infrastructure, Native health systems did their best to rise to the challenge.

So do we have your commitment to work through these issues with Papa Ola Lokahi, with myself, with the Committee?

In just 16 days, everything had changed. The coronavirus was no longer an abstract threat; it was real.