I appreciate the very kind remarks of my colleague from North Carolina (Ms. Manning). Mr. Speaker, I rise today in very strong support of this bill, the Pacific Partnership Act, which aims to broaden and deepen our critical partnerships…

We could help unleash private capital for home construction by guaranteeing and securitizing the construction of one to four-unit starter homes.

Our priority was to make sure that we focus on the residential side to get our families back home.

It is a challenge to try to all be on the same page, and it is probably going to start with a recommendation.

Thank you, Representative Porter. And mahalo, Mr. Chairman, for holding this field hearing today.

the Federal Government's total expenditures are closing in on $3 billion or in that range in totality.

To sustain that recovery, we will also need continued Federal support.

this is not over by a long shot.

I will speak all 102 names lost and the names of the two missing on the Floor of Congress.

As we continue our work to meet these urgent needs, we must never forget that Lahaina is not Lahaina without her people.

It is not as if it is going to be done by the end of the year.

Aloha to everybody. And I join my colleagues up here in saying a very special mahalo to each and all of you for coming here today.

I am very humbled and honored and grateful to be a part of this community as the Representative but really very blessed that we have these leaders here today.

the Federal Government and the Federal agencies are ultimately people, and people have motivations.

Central to the next phase of rebuilding Lahaina is the long-term recovery plan and development by Maui County.

I have said many times that this has felt like both the shortest and the longest year of my life.

It is also about how we build housing people can afford.

We would love to just actually see us get to a thousand temporary units built here.