Brian Schatz: “one of the fundamental trust and treaty obligations to tribal nations is to protect the public safety on their lands.”

This will help Hawai?i move quickly from emergency response to recovery and get our communities back on their feet.

These are things in statutory law. This is not the Ford Foundation where they say, 'Well, we've changed our grant criteria.' This is a matter of federal law, and they have to follow it.

It shouldn't be this difficult to get the State Department to follow the law.

We simply have to make it easier to build housing.