Brian Schatz

Today we are here to discuss the Bureau of Reclamation's Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study.

Our country has long been grateful for their service, their sacrifice, and we passed legislation to honor those veterans providing burial rites and compensation.

It's important because it would provide the Filipino soldiers who fought with the American Army during World War II with the full veterans benefits that they rightfully deserve and it will send a clear message to all veterans that…

S.690 Filipino Veterans Fairness Act of 2013

Thank you, Chairwoman McCaskill, for holding this important hearing. I also want to thank Senator Schumer for his leadership and sponsoring this common sense legislation.

Federal reaffirmation of tribal sovereignty through self-governance programs has enabled tribes to generate revenues through their own business enterprises.

These extreme cuts are having an outsized impact on the services the Federal Government provides to the tribal nations.

I believe strongly that Native Hawaiians deserve the same access to the prevailing Federal policy on self-determination as American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The Filipino veterans deserve the full support of the United States.

It is critical for America to provide long-overdue fairness, and full veterans benefits, to all Filipino veterans.

It's not clear to me at all that consumers have any degree of control over the information that's gathered about them.

Does the consumer have any right to know what this information is or who it's being transmitted to?

As far as having access to a credit score be free as part of the package, I think right now that's a legislative issue

Doesn't it make sense to have this as an annual free package, a credit report with your score

Talk to me about these specialty CRAs that compile and share consumer data without sufficient oversight?

It is vital for this Committee and this Congress to fully understand the real impacts to Native Americans of the sequester as well as the potential impacts of the Fiscal Year 2014 requests.

I applaud the President's Fiscal Year 2014 budget request for prioritizing fisheries science and making targeted investments in fisheries research and management.

Can we have a better understanding of revenue and expenses and the cash balance there.

I am authorized to state that Chairman Wellinghoff does not oppose S. Amdt. 579 or H.R. 316.

The reason that we're going to try to fast-track this legislation... is according to the most recent information from the Bureau of Reclamation, the Klamath Basin... has experienced the second driest January through March period on record.

Your hearing today, Mr. Chairman, S. 693, the city of Hermiston Water Recycling and Reuse Project, this is extraordinarily important to Hermiston, one of our Eastern Oregon communities.

This injustice must be addressed by the Congress.

Access to quality housing is essential for the well-being of our tribes.

The Native Hawaiian people are the only federally-recognized Native people without a government-to-government relationship with the Federal Government and this injustice must be addressed by the Congress.

I am committed to move forward their fight to ensure that the Federal Government upholds its trust responsibility to the indigenous people of what is now the United States of America.