Brian Schatz

Senator Brian Schatz and Senator Booker and I are reintroducing our legislation to establish in law what that Biden-era standard did through regulation.

If you could give us one piece of advice as it relates to the Federal Department of Transportation being nimble enough to accommodate all of this new technology, what would that piece of advice be?

One of the most constructive things that may be able to happen, going forward, is if the four, the testifiers would continue a dialogue because the opportunity for cross-pollination of really smart ideas is really extraordinary.

We should make policy to make sure that this happens regardless of who is in charge of the state government in a particular place.

We need to build back better to be more resilient.

Every day that we fail to act we become more vulnerable.

Programmatic environmental review is, in my view, one of the sweet spots maintaining the integrity of NEPA but making things work a little bit better.

$8 billion is not nearly enough for DOT's resiliency investments over a five-year period.

But if you are trying to drive Federal policy as it relates to climate resilience, then that worries me a bit.

Thank you very much. I want to thank our staff, the ranking member, all of the members, and especially the testifiers. This was a really constructive hearing.

Thank you again for your leadership.

I look forward to answering your questions and our continued partnership strengthening the Indigenous tourism industry for Tribes, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiians organizations.

Today's oversight hearing, the third in this Committee's COVID-19 Response series, will focus on the pandemic's impact on Native tourism economies.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on our Native communities.

Congress responded by providing funding through the American Rescue Plan act to help Native communities rebuild their economies.

Mahalo a nui loa for your continued leadership in ensuring the federal government meets its trust responsibility owed to all Native Americans, including American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians.

We must support the expansion of Native American language teaching and learning because language is the key to Native culture and identity.

Native American language inclusion in federal language programs can help to offset the harms inflicted by this pandemic.

But if we do it again, shame on all of us, because there will be no public health reason to do that, it will be purely the fault of the adults.

The pandemic has disproportionately affected Native communities, and we need to address these challenges.

I have been vaccinated; the people in this room have been vaccinated. These are the among the freedoms that you get back if you have been vaccinated.

Should we expect a drawdown, and, if so, over what period of time and----

I want to talk to you about divesting equipment.

We need to make sure that there is meaningful enforcement of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and all of our laws.

This industry can and does ruin lives with millions of simple errors.