If we underfund the core responsibilities of the EPA, which includes effectively enforcing our environmental laws, we no...
We should be putting programs like the SRF at the top of our priority list, and effectively funding the key responsibili...
No community can thrive or even survive without clean water and efficient wastewater management systems.
We will exercise our leadership to deliver practical, concrete outcomes at the leaders' meeting in Hawaii in November.
Through Senator Akaka's efforts, VA spending for health care is now appropriated a year in advance--protecting it from a...
I think it is a real challenge to really recreate a robust shipbuilding industry in our country.
So is the area of coverage one of the ways that you are going to allocate scarce resources?
Shipping and maritime safety and security are of vital importance to the economy and livelihood of Hawaii's people.
The biggest challenge will be training those members who are not co-located with their units or who serve intermittently...
Through the Dodd-Frank Act, we provided the Commission with the authority to require meaningful disclosures prior to the...
I continue to work purposefully and responsibly toward certification.
Given the many demands on the defense budget and the recently announced reductions, how does the fiscal year 2012 budget...
this would most likely be your last defense budget hearing before this committee.
I want to thank you all for your leadership and service.
I believe that taking care of those defending our Nation is a responsibility and not a choice.
Every Afghan soldier and police recruit now undertakes mandatory literacy education.
if USERRA is not going to be applied, then I agree with Christine Griffin that certainly the Federal Government should b...
I have been working with OPM to increase the use of telework in the Federal Government and my Telework Enhancement Act w...
