"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."
"I think we all know that we are not talking about Fortress America."
"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 worsen..."
"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."
"The criticality of funding FEMA has never been more important than it is now."
"It is a very critical hearing on a very critical region, and I appreciate your various comments on our Pacific Islands Caucus."
"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."
"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."