Ed Case

I urge this committee, number one, to appropriate the necessary funding and to carry out that Act and support related programs that contribute to our strategy in the Indo-Pacific.

I do not agree with those that believe that the solution to the Indo-Pacific region and China and the rest of the world is to disengage.

I believe that it is critical for us to get it right with respect to the Indo-Pacific region and China specifically.

I believe, to prioritize our response to China's growing role in the world.

Our national debt, as we all know, has now surpassed $22 trillion, a huge number.

I am here today in support of a fiscally responsible budget for fiscal year 2020, a budget that would focus our core functions and discretionary priorities within our means.

You are obviously very passionate about the National Science Foundation, as are many of us, a national institution, and I appreciate your own personal passion and work, but you are here representing our President and our Administration in…

The nature and timing of the fiscal year 2019 process has left EOIR short of fulfilling all of its current operational needs, and it is limited in its ability to reform programs that are not cost effective.

Sometimes the best intentions of humans are not as good as what nature wrote to start with.

As this is the first meeting of this Committee, my Subcommittee members, I bid you 'aloha' from the Native Hawaiians, the indigenous peoples of Hawaii.

Climate change is real; energy transition is inescapable, it is just when and how we do it.

You can say that without qualification, that you believe some of those attacks are nation-state sponsored.

I echo all the comments to all three of you to thank you for your service.

[O]ver 160 federal statutes have enacted programs to better the conditions of Native Hawaiians in areas such as Hawaiian homelands, health, education and economic development, all exercises of Congress' plenary authority under our U.S…

Let me conclude by making one other point that came out of our Committee on the Budget hearings just a week ago when I asked Office of Management and the Budget Director Bolton, hey, I have not heard much about debt. I have heard plenty…

Nor are we talking about the costs of the war which are now projected to be astronomical if we project out over a reasonable period of time. That is additional debt.

In the same spirit, we are not talking in this budget about any fix to the Alternative Minimum Tax, right?

It has been 1,215 days since the current administration assumed stewardship over our Federal budget. During that time, our national private debt has increased by 1.733 trillion. According to the Web site for the Bureau of the Public Debt…

But I have to state that the more time that goes by in terms of my service in Congress, the more I live in fear that in each one of those days I am taken a little bit farther away from what the person in my district thinks. When people sit…