I share your concerns because there are a number of moving parts with regard to the move out of Futenma and Henoko, and there are now delays there.
Mazie Hirono
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This issue is critical to ending veteran homelessness given the significant population of veterans with PTSD.
I am also pleased to see the creative use of telemedicine, as I have supported legislation to expand VA's utilization of telemedicine.
I would anticipate that the VA would continue to push for this because I think that, at this point, especially those of us who represent rural areas--and basically all of the neighbor islands, apart from Oahu, are rural areas.
Obviously for noncontiguous states that is a little hard to show, and I think it really disadvantages Alaska and Hawaii.
If the United States chooses to leave the alliance and convince our allies that we have--that 28 sovereign countries, working with the Arabs, in particular, who show signs of wanting to develop a NATO-like organization, we can do an awful…
I think the next President should see if he or she could convene a summit fairly early on in his or her tenure.
NATO has to become a more agile organization, and it has to become more responsive to the needs that are being--the threats that are coming our way, collectively.
The modernization and the interoperability of medical records, et cetera, it has been such an ongoing challenge.
The Department generally concurred with our recommendations, but as of May 2016, had not addressed four of the six recommendations.





