I think we also need to create a disaster recovery fund to allow HUD to get assistance out faster.

historically the amount of funding that a grantee gets is dependent entirely on how much Congress provides

I am hoping that you will consider expanding the scope of the Tribal Health Research Office to include native Hawaiians.

Unless Congress acts, we will go back to the Dark Ages, with very limited access to telehealth.

The U.S. shares a unique political relationship with the native Hawaiian community.

I am wondering how we can tweak these programs to recognize that it is renters as well as homeowners that we want to provide assistance to.

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

Thank you to all of our panelists. I want to continue the line of questioning from Senator Murkowski regarding mental health access and suicide prevention.

The Obama administration put forward a Federal Flood Risk Management Standard. Unfortunately, the last Administration, the Trump administration, eliminated that standard.

We believe that the legislation, however, is a true attempt to hit the sweet spot.

President Biden has put forward a plan as part of the American Jobs Plan to address those issues, to dramatically reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and move toward a clean energy future.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

We need to build back better to be more resilient.

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

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

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.

Thank you again for your leadership.

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

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

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

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.