Colleen Hanabusa

It is our kuleana and responsibility to ensure the future viability of our natural forests that the bill before us today puts in jeopardy.

Nothing is more tyrannical than Congress taking away a citizen's right to challenge the government.

I would like to remind my colleagues that the ESA has been 99 percent effective at preventing human-caused extinction.

Unfortunately, the discussion draft we are considering today upends both of these important laws.

The problem that I have with what you just said is the fact that Congress created the problem back in 1887, or whatever that year was, in the Dawes Act.

The tremendous array of cultural, historical and natural resources protected for future generations because of this law should be recognized.

Calling out previous uses of the Antiquities Act as executive overreach or abuse is a serious case of the pot calling the kettle black.

I do not think that gives us license to cause or revoke existing monuments or gut the Antiquities Act itself.

No President has ever unilaterally revoked a national monument.

Any executive act to abolish existing monuments will be met with significant opposition from the American people.

A review, if done in good faith, might actually teach us something about the broad base of support for national monuments and the Antiquities Act.

So the Jones Act, for me, is part of the overall readiness of our maritime industry and our ability to go to war.

We all can recognize that our shipbuilding industry depends too heavily on the military, and what we really would like to see is a robust commercial aspects of it.

Congress has to start a national debate regarding America's role in the world.

Isolationism is a major force that we are going to have to deal with.

It is paramount for us to look at the health, welfare of our public shipyards.

We must remain focused on the Asia Pacific pivot.

You know, a very good friend of mine and mentor, Senator Inouye, always said to me, 'You know, we used to rule the seven seas after World War II. We don't do that anymore, but we will always rule, or we should always rule, the deep blue…

The reason I am stuck is because I am trying to understand this from the perspective of the victim or the person who is seeking help.

Domestic violence touches every corner of our community. It does not depend on race or income.

The only way such an outrageous breach of fiduciary duty could occur...is for there to be an institutionalized culture that does not understand and take seriously this reality.

Settlement funds are not appropriations nor are they handouts. They are necessary compensation to resolve a legal dispute.

I think it wise for Congress to check on their progress now and I think we should be open to doing whatever we need to do to help them implement the Buy-Back Program in a way that will benefit tribes as it is intended.

Systemic and appalling breaches of fiduciary duty resulted in over a decade of class action litigation.

It is time for us to stop making the same mistakes over and over again.