I hope we can all stipulate at this point that the PRC is actively, consciously, and very deliberately expanding its influence across not just the compact countries, but the entire Pacific, all of the jurisdictions of the Pacific, and that…

I support the compacts, I support their re-negotiation, I think they are critical to our national security.

The NDS, of course, identifies the People's Republic of China as our most consequential strategic [competitor], our pacing challenge, and an opponent to a free and open Indo-Pacific.

As an island state located fully 2,500 miles off the coast of California, Hawai`i is uniquely challenged by its geographic isolation which makes our state heavily reliant on air transportation.

I appreciate the Committee's oversight on the implementation of this funding and, specifically, the billions of dollars in funding for port infrastructure upgrades, the Army Corps' massive backlog of authorized projects, and waterways that…

To help prevent any further degradation to our air transportation system, I urge the Committee to continue to support investments in new technologies and infrastructure projects to meet this critical challenge.

Current FAA infrastructure is insufficient to handle our nation's aviation needs, and this compounds for a fully reliant location such as Hawai`i.

The criticality of funding FEMA has never been more important than it is now.

I think that there are eminent solutions that combine the best of all worlds. So I think we should try to focus on how can we come up with a bill that actually solves this problem as opposed to worsens it.

I believe the situation at the border is a very critical issue, and I think anybody that walks away from that basic statement is not facing the realities.

I think we all know that we are not talking about Fortress America.

I want to support them, but I just--I can't do it again on a blind basis where the impacts are not taken care of this time around.

It is a very critical hearing on a very critical region, and I appreciate your various comments on our Pacific Islands Caucus.

We clearly do and should make multiple uses of the water available.

It seems obvious that in that kind of a situation we also are drawn into debates over short-term extracted uses of water versus long-term sustainable uses of water.

It seems to me to be pretty obvious that water is a finite resource. It is not infinite.

Please be totally honest with everybody about what this is all going to cost.

L rise today in support of S.7, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Technical Amendment Act of 2022. This bill will ensure the full inclusion of Native Hawaiians, the indigenous peoples of our country whose origins lie in Hawaii, in the…

I commend my colleague from Illinois, Mr. Quigley, on his work on this bill, and I urge all Members to vote ``yes.'' Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

I have no further requests for time. I am prepared to close. I reserve the balance of my time.

First of all, to the ranking member's comments, this is an informed judgment about which of two existing Federal agencies is more appropriate to manage and administer what, I believe, if I hear the ranking member correctly, is our common…

The only measure cited as positive, year-over-year deficit improvement, is meaningless against a baseline of necessary but actual record COVID deficit spending.

This proposal, introduced by me and others this Congress on a bipartisan, bicameral basis, would establish a National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.

I am 100 percent in favor of zero-based budgeting.

The TRUST Act would take steps to secure the endangered species of Social Security and Medicare.