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Brian Schatz

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Brian Emanuel Schatz is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Hawaii since December 26, 2012. A member of the Democratic Party, Schatz has focused on issues such as climate change, healthcare, and education during his time in office. He succeeded Daniel Akaka and has been an advocate for renewable energy and environmental protection, reflecting Hawaii's unique ecological challenges and opportunities.

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Jan 18, 2021

These kinds of engagements are really meaningful. They underscore our commitment to the region, including helping them to confront COVID and the climate crisis.

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Jan 18, 2021

We need to reengage with that are our longtime partners and allies and friends, and for both moral reasons and strategic reasons, we need to reengage.

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Jan 18, 2021

Thank you to both of you for being willing to serve.

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Jan 18, 2021

I would like you to perhaps provide some emphasis on those areas where we can make some permanent structural change within the department so that our climate strategy becomes so embedded into American foreign policy objectives

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Jan 4, 2021

This is a guy saying, cough up 11,000 votes because that's the number that would cause Georgia to flip.

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Jan 4, 2021

You now have political parties that are not just divided in terms of left right ideology, their view about the size and scope of government or climate, or social issues, or whatever it may be. But you now have one party that is committed…

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Jan 4, 2021

Well, it's cheating. And I know senators and lawyers and pundits have a tendency to want to dress up what's happening in sort of legalistic terms. But I think we need to be as clear as possible that this is an attempt to subvert the…

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Jan 4, 2021

But it is the expressed policy of the Republican Party to limit the vote, to manipulate the vote and where possible, to overturn the popular vote.

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Oct 6, 2020

The President tweeted out this announcement that he personally was killing the stimulus talks because he doesn't want crime-infested Democrat cities to get any money as if they are not Americans.

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Oct 6, 2020

It's not just enough to beat Trump, we have to repudiate Trumpism.

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Oct 6, 2020

The fact that the President has withdrawn from COVID relief negotiations in favor of installing a Supreme Court Justice, in order to take away health care, six days after the election.

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Oct 6, 2020

Yes. And I think what's -- first of all, they're not going to start contact tracing. And what's crazy to me about this, this particular issue, is contact tracing actually is hard. We've had some difficulty in the State of Hawaii getting it…

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Oct 6, 2020

He is absolutely ruining his electoral chances by pulling out of COVID relief talks.

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Jul 16, 2019

Members of the consortium actually have lots of questions, too, similar to the questions that are being offered on this dais. And they have great reservations about moving forward, but they do not want to be left out because of Facebook's…

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May 13, 2019

Due to a clerical error, the senior Senator from Alaska, Ms. Murkowski, was not added as an original cosponsor and co-lead of the Compact of Free Association Veterans Review Act when we introduced the bill together on April 29, 2019…

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Mar 6, 2019

I just would like to get clarification. She did say climate change is real, but my question is whether--

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Mar 6, 2019

Will the Senator from Iowa yield to a question? I am interested in whether she believes that climate change is real, caused by humans, and requires Federal action.

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Dec 10, 2018

They are sandbagging, and I will leave it there.

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Dec 10, 2018

Governments need to act on climate change, and they specifically say it is vital that Governments commit to improve climate-related financial reporting standards.

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Dec 5, 2018

Just because a company continually refuses to deal with the stranded assets problem... does not mean that they ought to.

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Dec 5, 2018

In my view, not the regulators. In my view, not the legislative branch. In my view, the shareholders themselves.

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Oct 11, 2018

It is vital that companies like Midco that provide high-speed and reliable broadband to the most rural areas of our country have equal access to spectrum.

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Oct 11, 2018

This bipartisan legislation is an important and thoughtful kickoff to a conversation about how best to modernize small cell deployment policy.

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Oct 9, 2018

That is why the body needs this law to say, 'This is what is in and this is what is out for companies.'

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Oct 9, 2018

There are no angels. God bless them all.

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