Parks are a wise investment supporting hunting, fishing, camping and other outdoor recreational activities.

I strongly support NAHASDA reauthorization and share the high priority the leadership and members of this Committee place on addressing the unmet housing needs of Native Americans.

Thank you to the chairman and the ranking member. Thanks, ranking member, for your accommodation.

I want to thank the National Park Service for its attention to this bill.

These studies are a critical step in protecting natural resources preserving history and culture in Hawaii and across the Pacific.

Thank you, Mr. President. Congress created the Hawaiian Home Lands trust to provide housing and settlement opportunities for Native Hawaiians. However, as the statistics I just laid out show, this indigenous population continues to…

I rise today to speak in support of S. 1243, the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for 2014. I wish to thank Senators Murray and Collins as well as Senators Mikulski and Shelby for their…

I ask unanimous consent for an additional 5 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Woman, countless men and women from my State of Hawaii and all across the country have worn the uniform and put their lives on the line to protect our freedoms and our liberties. I cannot in good conscience vote to take a single dollar…

I appreciate the hard work of my colleagues who reached today's compromise student loan plan. However, I will oppose this bill, and I want to explain my reasoning. The bill before us may be a good deal for current students in the short…

What is the one thing that the Congress ought to be doing to address our aging water infrastructure from your perspective?

In 2008 this subcommittee held a similar hearing and we learned then that the maintenance backlog for the Bureau of Reclamation's water facilities alone exceeded $3.2 billion.

In fact we just witnessed a near disaster right here in the Nation's capital when water in Prince George's County was nearly shut off to tens of thousands of residents during the hottest week of the summer due to an aging water main that…

Today the Subcommittee on Water and Power is holding an oversight hearing on aging water infrastructure in the United States.

This is a bipartisan issue. The need to repair our aging infrastructure in water and elsewhere applies to each of our States.

We do need a national water strategy as well as a national infrastructure strategy.

I think what you're hearing from this committee is that those data bases need to be a little more than internal and a little bit more than a, sort of, a working tool, but a real reporting to Congress so that we can exercise our own…

Unfortunately this situation hasn't improved much in the last 5 years.