"Their sacrifices highlight why it is a strategic imperative to ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific."
"The record we create today will support the mission and work of this Committee to ensure that U.S. citizens and our locally self-governing U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Ma..."
"Thank you, Chairman Hageman, and also thank you to the witnesses for being here today as we convene to take testimony from expert witnesses on the preservation of U.S. critical interests in the Pacifi..."
"We need to remember that those U.S. lands in the Pacific, including the-then U.S. territories of Hawaii and the Philippines, were directly attacked and in some cases occupied by an aspiring imperialis..."
"The Department of the Interior has a long history of leasing federal land containing coal deposits to mining companies willing to mine those deposits under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920."
"We have asked for that information, and nobody has been able to provide it so far."
"My idea of conservation is you use it and leave it better for future generations."
"This was intended to simply add new funding to cleanup efforts, not overhaul a program that has been working well since the 1970s."
"But it is really hard to come in here and talk about increased money for firefighting, when that is just putting a Band-Aid on the wound instead of going to the symptom of what is causing the problem."
"How many more of these Paradise, California-style fires must occur before we actually do the right thing and start taking preventative measures?"
"We should be looking at what is causing these fires, not just how do we spend more money to pay firefighters."