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

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.

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.

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.

I want to talk to you about divesting equipment.

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

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.

Is there something you think we can do about that, like pass the legislation that John Thune and I have introduced?

So do we have your commitment to work through these issues with Papa Ola Lokahi, with myself, with the Committee?

In just 16 days, everything had changed. The coronavirus was no longer an abstract threat; it was real.

They started the rollout of some of the most successful vaccine campaigns in the Country.

Despite decades of underfunding and almost zero access to critical pieces of our national health infrastructure, Native health systems did their best to rise to the challenge.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the disparities in health care access for Native communities.

Water is essential for all communities' public health, especially in the midst of the pandemic, but also for education, jobs and economic development.

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

the war on drugs, in my view, is still failing our partners in the region.

We must ensure that our Native communities have the water infrastructure they need to thrive.

The Climate Change Financial Risk Act, introduced by Senator Schatz and Representative Casten, would require the Fed to establish a climate-related stress testing framework.

I just think this committee and U.S. Government officials should be extremely precise when describing the Government of China as opposed to the Chinese.

Most of China's influence in the region comes from financing loans, more than one and a half billion in the last decade.

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas…

Senator Brian Schatz and I plan to shortly reintroduce our bill to impose a financial transaction fee.