Ed Case: “the only reason that it did get included was because a roll call vote was not called.”

Aloha to everybody. And I join my colleagues up here in saying a very special mahalo to each and all of you for coming here today.

This has nothing to do with voter suppression. Now, those are fears and there are legitimate fears, and I accept those concerns.

Native Hawaiians teach that our forests are essential to all life and embrace a deep sense of responsibility to sustain and protect all that is the wao nahele.

I read this amendment carefully, and what I saw in this amendment and the policy choices that it engages have nothing to do with what I just heard from the proponent of this amendment, so let me deal with the merits of this amendment as it…