Brian Schatz

We should not just sunset every AUMF in every defense authorization

The Biden administration is continuing the previous administration's proposals to expand U.S. nuclear capabilities, including a new low-yield nuclear sea-launched cruise missile that many of us believe is dangerous and unnecessary.

I am looking for processes, training manuals, curricula, and all of that to change because climate is not going to go away as a threat multiplier and as a diplomatic challenge.

President Nez, your testimony highlights the urgent need for Congress to provide sanitation infrastructure for the Navajo Nation.

I want to thank the witnesses for their testimony today and for the work that they do.

The Federal Government has a special trust responsibility to ensure the general welfare of Native communities.

Senators Schatz and Young also have a bipartisan bill to reduce 'Not in My Back Yard,' or NIMBY, activities.

There is at least anecdotal evidence among veterans that accessing mental health services via telemedicine can sort of overcome or circumvent the stigma.

Do we need to institutionalize some of these.

When we spoke in January I mentioned the veterans on Hawaii Island are still waiting for VA to break ground on the new outpatient clinic in Hilo, Hawaii.

There is going to be a patient revolt if--you know, 10 years ago if you told someone to interact with their clinician via their iPhone, it would be an insult.

Can you please give me an update?

I just think there is going to be a patient revolt if--you know, 10 years ago if you told someone to interact with their clinician via their iPhone, it would be an insult.

To what extent are any of the expansions of telehealth services, dependent on or precipitated by the pandemic?

Are there specific places we need to burrow into the bureaucracy, or into the statutory law to make sure these things stick?

And so, I just think we are underestimating the extent to which people are going to freak out in 18 months, if something that was fantastic and available is suddenly not.

I just think we need more regulatory staff. If you're going to enforce the law, you need people to do so.

I agree with the Secretary that it is time for bold action.

We must admit that resilience is not a luxury.

It's not like the condition of our transportation infrastructure is a secret.

Yeah. I just think we need more regulatory staff.

Does the FAA have a realistic plan to work with the airlines to achieve their goal of zero carbon emissions by 2050?

We must admit that resilience is not a luxury. We cannot adapt to the effects of climate change by nickeling and diming it.

We have to find ways to either change things, like how much we allow vouchers to really be effective

Thank you. We had this extraordinary hearing a couple of weeks ago on resiliency, especially in the context of climate change, and there was a researcher from the University of Maine who had this extraordinary technology, some of it funded…