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There is a vital need for new funding for a new particularly threatening invasive, coffee leaf rust.

I ask the subcommittee to continue to enhance these programs.

Yet Hawaii agriculture has its own challenges which require Federal attention.

mahalo for the opportunity to testify before you today on critical needs for Hawaii agriculture.

I think we`re not losing your shot.

There are already bills to do that, as you probably know. And this is why, when the court is so far to the right, and it’s no longer, in my view, an objective court on so many of these issues, then we talk about expanding the court.

How fundamental could it be that one should be able to decide -- a woman should be able to control her own body? How fundamental is that?

Then there’s no longer a constitutionally protected right for a woman to have control over her own body.

I think we have to assume will go in the direction that the far right, sort of religious right wants it to go, that it would be like the dog catching the car.

I rise today to reintroduce the `I Am Vanessa Guillen Act' that addresses longstanding systemic problems in the way that the military responds to sexual harassment and sexual assault. I thank Representative Speier and Representative Mullin…

Today it is with overwhelming pride that I rise to congratulate the 2021 NCAA Men's Volleyball National Champions of the University of Hawaii. In Columbus, Ohio this past Saturday, the Rainbow Warriors dominated Brigham Young University in…

If you could give us one piece of advice as it relates to the Federal Department of Transportation being nimble enough to accommodate all of this new technology, what would that piece of advice be?

one of the most constructive things that may be able to happen, going forward, is if the four, the testifiers would continue a dialogue because the opportunity for cross-pollination of really smart ideas is really extraordinary.

We should make policy to make sure that this happens regardless of who is in charge of the state government in a particular place.

We need to build back better to be more resilient.

Every day that we fail to act we become more vulnerable.

Programmatic environmental review is, in my view, one of the sweet spots maintaining the integrity of NEPA but making things work a little bit better.

$8 billion is not nearly enough for DOT's resiliency investments over a five-year period.