I am honored to kick off the first oversight hearing as the Chairman of the Committee.

We are particularly grateful for your recent efforts to ensure that Native Hawaiians were eligible for federal Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) relief.

In the 116th Congress, S. 4510, the Native American Language Resource Center Act was introduced by Senator Brian Schatz.

OHA's policy priority for the Congress is simply this: to further the self-determination of Native Hawaiians.

A CALL TO ACTION: NATIVE COMMUNITIES' PRIORITIES IN FOCUS FOR THE 117TH CONGRESS

Your work here empowers the Native community to continue exercising true self-determination--our right to chart our own course and maintain our distinct traditions, cultures, and Native ways.

We urge this Committee to support increased funding for, reauthorization of, and expansion of the NHHBG and 184A Loan Guarantee programs.

Congress has consistently recognized Native Hawaiians as the indigenous once-sovereign people of the State of Hawaii.

I appreciate the bipartisanship way your Committee has worked over the years to ensure that the Federal Government honors its trust responsibility to all Native Americans.

One of my goals as chairman is to bring Native Hawaiian issues and priorities to the forefront.

OHA supports Chairman Schatz's PLACE Act, introduced last Congress.

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Rules for the 117th Congress be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Senate Committee on…

we are 1 year into the worst pandemic in a century, and it is clear that Native Americans have felt some of the most severe impacts of COVID. Here is what we know: The number of confirmed cases per capita among Native Americans is 3\1/2\…

Exclusionary zoning, restrictive covenants, all of that is the great-grandson of Jim Crow.

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

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

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.

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

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…

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…

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

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.

today, I rise to pay tribute to MAJ Catherine ``Catie'' Shutters Sundin and her service as an officer in the U.S. Army. I am especially grateful for her support to my office as an Army congressional fellow from January to December 2017…

before I talk about the Supreme Court, I want to express my condolences to the families and the loved ones who have experienced the human toll of the coronavirus pandemic. Over 220,000 Americans have died, and millions of others have been…

I am going to give some remarks in 4 or 5 minutes. I just wanted to encourage the staffers, especially the stenographers, to feel comfortable to keep their distance from U.S. Senators who are delivering remarks. There is no reason, if we…