Brian Schatz

I have sort of two lines of questioning.

I would strongly encourage Indian Health Services, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and other frontline agencies to work with the DOJ funded AMBER Alert Initiative for Indian County.

I applaud Senator Udall's efforts to improve coordination among government agencies providing services to trafficked individuals on tribal lands.

Health Care workers are absolutely a priority for proper training to identify, treat and provide safe options for trafficked victims that come into their care.

Human trafficking is no exception to this trend.

Over 80 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native women experience violence in their lifetime.

The purpose of SESTA is to enable civil and criminal prosecution against bad actors.

I am proud that both bills passed the full Senate last week.

Sex trafficking is an evil that affects every community across America.

I believe the cooperation of the tech industry will be critical to any effective solution.

I want to be clear: the website Backpage.com has been the impetus for much of the discussion around Section 230.

We can make consumer protection a core value of what we do in fintech.

There are security issues. As we saw with Equifax, our most sensitive personal information can be vulnerable.

If you want to help individuals who need universal service, then we ought to help individuals who need universal service rather than have a booth somewhere saying, 'Free Cell Phones.'

Audits are helpful. We will implement your recommendations.

What does that one mean?

The states have long played a key role in preventing waste, fraud, and abuse, and so this move is an important one.

I have no doubt that the Lifeline program provides a critical service for many low-income Americans, including my constituents, but I think we need an honest assessment of how best to deliver such services to those who need them the most.

Nobody in any administration, Democrat or Republican, should be prohibited on the basis of politics from using whatever words they want to describe the world as it is.

Do you commit to resisting any pressure from the administration or elsewhere to compromise the integrity of the Department's data and economic analysis?

These important sources of economic data would also face steep budget cuts. This proposal has many of us very worried about the integrity of our data.

The Jones Act has been the law of the land for 97 years, and I am on record as being a firm supporter of that law.

The world as it is, is one in which climate change is a fact.

Sure. But from the land-based trash, is this--are these landfills that are along the coastline and trash that ends up in the ocean, or is this the dumping of land-based trash into the ocean?

It's just covered in trash.