Our goal is to consider these priorities with an eye toward compiling a bipartisan bill with the full support of the entire Committee.

I think we have a very, very well-qualified panel today.

The 2018 Farm Bill was the first to meaningfully expand USDA program support for Native producers and Native communities.

I think that the idea of expanding and diversifying, it runs across all gamuts, including lawyers, you know, to be able to know a product when they see it.

I rise to express my support and appreciation for Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su and all she is doing to uplift workers and businesses across our country. Acting Secretary Su has been leading the Department of Labor for nearly 5…

I would like to extend sincerest gratitude to Senator Schatz and Senator Murkowski for the opportunity to testify today.

I believe that everyone deserves representation in our legal system.

International trade, at its fundamental core, is about fairness.

So we need to do a heck of a lot better and there are a number of bills that would enable the affordable access to childcare, and I think that's something that we need to do for the women in our country and I say about time.

Congratulations on your nominations.

So obviously and I bet, yes, I see some hands from people in the audience, that that is one of the often-cited very practical concerns is access to capital.

I want to thank the Agriculture Committee Chairman Stabenow and Ranking Member Boozman for being such great partners in advancing Native priorities in the Farm Bill.

I think that's going to be really critical to enable entrepreneurs in the rural areas of our country to be able to sell their products.

Whatever you can do to get across to women in our country, girls in our country, that they can invent things and that they can be part of a huge economic--make a huge economic difference to our country.

I have visited the Women's Business Center in Honolulu and I know that it makes a really big difference.

Unleashing our country's full potential is also why last Congress I worked with Senators Tillis, Coons, and other colleagues to introduce the IDEA Act.

The tribes will have more authority to honor and to protect the Wounded Knee site.

This bill is a step forward in recognizing the rights of indigenous peoples.