03/07/2023
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"Hawaii is very well aware of the challenges facing our compact citizens and so clearly one topic of this hearing is where we need to meet our obligations to the Palauans."
"I think that we need to restore some of the eligibility of our compact citizens for particularly three programs, Medicare, TANF and SNAP."
"That is why it is even more important that after the 1997 welfare reform law when suddenly our compact citizens no longer qualified for Medicaid, that that be restored."
"I would say that that should be a top priority for our committees and our subcommittees."