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I appreciate the Committee's oversight on the implementation of this funding and, specifically, the billions of dollars in funding for port infrastructure upgrades, the Army Corps' massive backlog of authorized projects, and waterways that…

I think we really need to talk about how IP affects GDP.

To help prevent any further degradation to our air transportation system, I urge the Committee to continue to support investments in new technologies and infrastructure projects to meet this critical challenge.

I do expect for the demand to increase in the future.

Our IP system has long been the engine that drives American leadership and innovation, and we must ensure that our system encourages American innovation and does not allow bad actors to stifle or steal it.

I hope that you will support our efforts to fund such a hub in Hawaii.

We are always looking for new opportunities to strengthen those relationships.

The Chinese government has undertaken a widespread and systematic campaign of stealing American intellectual property to advance the Chinese economy.

It is important to deter Chinese government wrongdoing and prosecute espionage and theft, but our concern is with the Chinese government and not with the Chinese people.

We must message this to them. We must give them tools.

I only ask that our witnesses here today consider a whole-of-government approach as we define and strengthen our relationship with both Okinawa and Hawaii.

I hope this committee will join me in applauding his courage and his service to his country.

Going after professors on shoddy evidence will hurt, not help, American innovation by sending the best minds elsewhere.

As an island state located fully 2,500 miles off the coast of California, Hawai`i is uniquely challenged by its geographic isolation which makes our state heavily reliant on air transportation.

we are going to be working on the NDAA, and I suggest to my colleague to go ahead and put an amendment--or whatever he wants--in the NDAA. Then let's take a vote on whether or not this policy should stand. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the…

No more excuses. I want to know when these loans are going out.

as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and as chair of the Readiness Subcommittee, I rise today deeply opposed to the dangerous posturing of my colleague from Alabama in playing with our national security. That is what it is…