I have been fighting to reopen this facility in order to provide these important services.

I would expect that you will do everything you can to have women and minorities be very much a part of a system that really means innovation and leadership in our country.

I have been fighting to reopen this facility in order to provide these important services.

last month, on August 8, people on Maui experienced one of the worst days of their lives. What started as a bright, sunny, windy summer day turned into a long, hellish nightmare as wildfires burned down the town of Lahaina. There was…

I have been fighting to reopen this facility in order to provide these important services.

I would expect that you will do everything you can to have women and minorities be very much a part of a system that really means innovation and leadership in our country.

We have to do more, or it will turn deadly for many of our communities.

We have to do more, or it will turn deadly for many of our communities.

I think to the extent that SBA programs target women for a particular kind of support, that--I think that is something that the SBA could have an impact.

the recovery of Maui, as well as on the Big Island, will take time and resources, and we need to have a continuing commitment.

Outreach is really important and follow through.

I have been trying to get them to put fresh pineapple in our school lunches.

Did these farmers work with any organization to alert them to what they could be doing to make sure that the wildfires are contained?

So clearly, there are a lot of grants that have been made available, by the way, through some of the really huge bills that have been enacted by Congress.

Thank you. I just want to note that I think there is an echoing in here.

Whatever you were talking about, that makes it harder for our people to apply for these particular loans.

I think that we need to recognize how important it is for flexibility for USDA.

I would appreciate any other kinds of requests that you would like to put to both me and Congresswoman Tokuda in how we can continue to combat invasive species.