Today I introduce the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2009. While this legislation is especially significant to Native Hawaiians, I introduce this measure for all the people of Hawaii. This bill authorizes a process to…

Families have been pushed into mortgage products with associated risks and costs that they could not afford.

How do we create a regulatory structure that better protects working families against predatory practices?

I would tell you that one of the huge problems that this country has is that this country is financially illiterate.

Chairman Akaka, we were pleased that in September of last year you introduced legislation--S. 3527, the 'Veterans' Health Care Budget Reform Act'--that would reform the VA budget process by providing advance appropriations for veterans'…

I have said this time and time again: veterans' benefits and services are a cost of war and must be understood and funded as such.

Could a public works program like that be useful in the economic situation we find the country in today?

I want to thank you for holding this timely hearing.

The postal reform bill we passed in 2006 intended to make the Postal Service operate even more like a business, as we have said, and be independent of any Federal funding.

Mr. Potter, GAO and others have stated that it is important for the Postal Service to work with the unions in much the same way to realign labor needs with the needs of the postal workforce.

Chairman Akaka, we were pleased that during the 110th Congress you introduced legislation, the Veterans' Health Care Budget Reform Act, S. 3527, that would reform the VA budget process by providing advanced appropriations for VA health…

I look upon what is happening as something that will affect our entire country, including Hawaii.

Service and deliveries may need to be cut back in order to balance the books of the Postal Service.

By moving to advance appropriations, veterans' health care programs would accrue all three of these benefits.

The Veterans' Health Care Budget Reform Act would ensure that the goals of the partnership--sufficient, timely and predictable funding--are met.

the Veterans' Health Care Budget Reform Act which received bipartisan support to achieve sufficient, timely and predictable veterans' health care funding.

You have really increased my confidence in SEC and in our country's financial community.

I am asking this as chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee. I have been working on what I am calling a seamless transition.

I feel that the men and women of the Pacific Command have maintained a remarkable level of stability.

I believe our greatest challenge as we move to the future has to do with those unseen wounds, so to speak, the wounds of stress, the wounds of injury, traumatic to the brain.

I am delighted to be here to say aloha to Mary Schapiro and, of course, to your lovely family.

Without question, you have my support. But I thank you so much for what you have done already.

Since 2002, 61 former detainees have committed or are suspected to have committed attacks after being released from the detention camp.

If confirmed, each of you will face, without question, enormous challenges in DOD.

if you look at the Navy in its entirety, it's a representative mix of America's society. But if you look at the leadership, it tends to be very white male.