this hearing is nothing more or less than a part of a concerted effort to disrupt, to upset, to halt a decades-old, inclusive process

I am going to, myself, soon be introducing what we refer to as the Heal Maui Act, which is a comprehensive legislative proposal designed to provide swift and meaningful and direct support to our small business and their specific conditions…

They were, as she has testified, one of the worst natural disasters in our country's history.

I commend to you not only the legislation that Ms. Tokuda referred to, and not only the need to assist our small businesses in Maui but in particular as well the Heal Maui Act which I will soon introduce.

At this time of unprecedented disaster in my home state of Hawaii, Congress must do everything possible to support those who are struggling.

Understanding the compounding financial impact COVID and the fire have had on our small business, I introduced the Microenterprise Assistance and Urgent Investment for Supporting Trade, Recovery Operations, and Neighborhood Growth, or the…

I endorse everything that she just said to you.

This economic consequence of the fires is hitting our Hawaii small businesses hard.

I invite you to consider we in the East and South often have a different relationship.

I recently introduced H.R. 3971, the Flatside Wilderness Additions Act.

We have formal letters of support from Arkansas's Governor Sarah Sanders.

And it is fundamentally unfair for the Federal Government to ask the states to take on this responsibility disproportionately.

This needs to be in the discussion draft as it comes out of this Committee. If it is, I will have absolutely no hesitation in supporting this all the way.

However, I hate to rain on the parade, because I have an issue that I have been talking about for 5 years that needs to be resolved, and that is the treatment of our compact residents in the United States.

Again, we have an amendment that would want us, apparently, to occupy some other state of reality as opposed to the world as we have it today. In that world, we do have transgender individuals who need help, children whose parents are…

Obviously we have a difference of opinion here. I would also submit that the leadership of our military have a difference of opinion with the perspectives expressed by the author of this amendment. Again, they understand the values of…

We have confirmed, to the prior amendment, that Floyd Bennett Field in New York is not a military installation. Do we not value diversity in our military? That is the question in this amendment. Does it matter that we have a diverse…

First of all, we can certainly debate the efficient use of our funds for expenses and the cost, but I strongly suspect that my colleague's objections in this amendment do not relate to cost but to a judgment about what should and shouldn't…

I am reading the text of this amendment, and it says here none of the funds appropriated may be used for the purposes of teleworking or remote working for any employee or any contractor of the Department of Defense on a regular and…

To my friend and colleague, Mr. Calvert, Main Street small business is engaging in telework today. It is finding the opportunities to utilize telework where appropriate. Main Street government is engaging in telework where appropriate. I…

Suitable oversight of telework by the DOD is appropriate. It is something that we should engage in. To foreclose it under all circumstances, I believe, is unwise. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

I just heard my friend and chair of the subcommittee say something that I completely agree with, which is we need real solutions to immigration and the border crisis, and that is true. This takes a piecemeal approach that is unnecessarily…

First of all, I think we are trying to confirm whether or not Floyd Bennett Field is, in fact, a military installation within the definition of the gentleman's amendment. That point aside, again, I would say that if we are trying to solve…

To my colleague, I am simply reading the language of the amendment, ``on a regular and recurring basis.'' There may well be suitable reasons why telework would be advisable on a regular and recurring basis which is not health related and…

I totally support the bill, obviously. I am a co-sponsor, a co-introducer of it.