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 think it is an excellent question, and I think it does get to the mission of the East-West Center.

The East-West Center was started in 1960, and it was started for this specific purpose, to facilitate and foster engagement on several levels between East and West.

I think the East-West Center's role is to engage all of our partners, all of our potential partners, and even our adversaries.

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

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

I think if we go down simply a pure defense approach then we will be making a mistake with China in the long run.

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

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…