Brian Schatz

We are very much appreciative the work, Senator Schatz, that you have done, in the Senate Indian Affairs Committee

We are particularly grateful for your continuing efforts to ensure that Native Hawaiians are eligible for and gain access to federal Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) relief.

We thank you, Chairman Schatz, for the recognition of need and funding to strengthen high-speed Internet access in Native Hawaiian communities and across Hawai'i.

We delivered the biggest Federal investment in American history, more than $270 million in direct funding for Native Hawaiians.

DHHL is grateful to Chairman Schatz for securing $22.3 million in the current fiscal year for Native Hawaiian housing.

OHA affirms its concerns, shared by our beneficiaries and communities, and thanks you, Chairman Schatz, for your swift actions to appropriate funding to defuel and close the tanks.

The Federal Government has a trust responsibility to Native Hawaiians, just like it does with American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The federal government's trust responsibilities to American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians.

We must prioritize the health and well-being of our tribal nations.

If they are the ones saying, well, that is a bad neighborhood, and that is a good neighborhood, there you are.

I am not sure I have ever heard something so blunt from a Cabinet Secretary, and it is really refreshing.

I don't want you to be shy about it.

Some of the arguments against more housing come from the Jim Crow Era of racist exclusion.

Neighbors who block new development may tell you that they are for housing, in concept, just not in their backyard.

I want as many vouchers out there as possible, but if we are just pushing out vouchers, and we don't have the throughput...

The authority is vested in you, and there is nothing inappropriate about you being more engaged in the process.

We are in a major, major hurry because the solar industry in the United States is at a halt.

I want to know that you are alarmed, and I want to know that you are going to update the Members of the Senate who have expressed their concerns on a bipartisan basis, with some pace.

I would argue that the allegation that what is happening in terms of the manufacturing process in Southeast Asia is minor or insignificant, is just facially not true.

How do we institutionalize these efforts so that the entire Defense Appropriations Subcommittee can get behind this as a national security imperative and not have it swing back and forth depending on who wins whatever election.

One of the things I think is really important is building strong relationships with our allies and partners and that's exactly what Pacific Pathways does.

The Army Climate Strategy includes an emphasis on ensuring that the Army considers climate change risks in the way we train our Soldiers and conduct exercises.

We also get the ability to influence their training, inter-operability, and again I think, you know, when we talk about peace through strength, having strong allies and partners that work together, that train together in a scrimmage, if…

You're just going to have increasing severity and frequency of severe weather events, both, you know, domestically and internationally, and we sort of need to contend with that as a strategic question but also just a readiness question.

We cannot let the 'old way of business get in the way'.