It has been 25 days, 25 days since over 800,000 Federal employees have either been going to work without pay or have been furloughed, all of them wondering: How am I going to pay my rent or my mortgage? How am I going to afford the bills…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Hawaii.

this shutdown is not a negotiation situation. This is a hostage situation. For the past 3 weeks, Donald Trump has held 800,000 Federal workers, tens of thousands of Federal contractors, and thousands of small businesses hostage to extort…

100 days ago today, the Saudi regime ordered the assassination of a journalist named Jamal Khashoggi. This atrocity brought the world's attention to Saudi Arabia, a radical Wahhabi theocracy where the oppression of women and the…

this shutdown is not a negotiation situation. This is a hostage situation. The President of the United States has taken 800,000 Federal workers, tens of thousands of Federal contractors, and thousands of small businesses hostage to extort…

today, we remember the 400 American and Allied prisoners of war who died 74 years ago from friendly fire aboard the Japanese hell ship Enoura Maru docked in Takeo Harbor, Formosa-- modern-day Taiwan. Among the dead were men who left their…

The reason that I’m so outspoken on this issue of ending these wasteful regime-change wars is because I have seen firsthand this high human cost of war and the impact that it has on my fellow brothers and sisters in uniform.

I will do anything and everything that I possibly can to stop sending our men and women in uniform into harm’s way, fighting in these wasteful, counterproductive wars.

I think that was an important change, and I hope that Admiral Moran agrees with that, because we cannot continue to have all these waivers for the readiness of these ships before they deploy.

I think when I met with you, I was very interested in making sure that when we purchase the ships, et cetera, aircraft, that corrosion is one of the factors that we would consider in putting out the contract to begin with.

I am glad to hear that Pearl Harbor is one of your first shipyard focuses.

Meanwhile, the modernization plans are proceeding. They are being implemented per our Secretary.

Today I am rising to recognize Special Olympics Hawaii celebrating 50 years of service to our community. Since its founding in 1968, Special Olympics has changed lives and served as an indispensable source of strength and empowerment for…

There is a concern about something called innovative accounting techniques to indicate to us that these 80 percent goals are being met.

I consider this to be a major improvement after years of neglect of this important infrastructure.

Admiral Moran, how well is the current surface ship maintenance strategy performing in terms of providing sufficient throughput and timely delivery of ships back to the Fleet in terms of meeting the requirements of the Optimized Fleet…

They are sandbagging, and I will leave it there.

Governments need to act on climate change, and they specifically say it is vital that Governments commit to improve climate-related financial reporting standards.