I believe that everyone deserves representation in our legal system.

It's essential that we listen to the needs of our Native communities.

I totally support the bill, obviously. I am a co-sponsor, a co-introducer of it.

I greatly appreciate this Committee's attention to the unique needs of Native and tribal communities in this upcoming Farm Bill.

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

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

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

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 believe that everyone deserves representation in our legal system.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.