I rise today to urge my colleagues to support the Hirono-Heller amendment No. 2109, which deals with Asian American and Pacific Islander, or AAPI, student data. AAPIs are the fastest growing population in the United States, but it is…

I urge my colleagues to support the Hirono-Heller amendment No. 2109. The current AAPI--American Asian Pacific Islander--category hides huge achievement gaps among subgroups, i.e., Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Japanese, et cetera. With…

forcing companies to--to provide a back door to encryption is going to result in a lot of unintended possibly consequences.

no system is secure, so we need to weigh the--what the risks are, et cetera.

I think that's one of the reasons that we have to be very careful in what--in what we decide to do.

I think that is a very important aspect of what we need to do going forward on the 'Going Dark' problem.

I just want to end by thanking all of you, particularly, Dr. Haynie, I really appreciated your commitment to helping the disabled veterans.

Water is fundamental to all aspects of life.

Hawaii has to be especially creative when it comes to maximizing benefits of our limited water resources.

we certainly have a Federal responsibility to the American Indian tribes to live up to our obligations to them.

In the native Hawaiian culture, water or wai, is considered a sacred source of life.

I rise today to enable my colleagues to become aware of the tragic circumstances that led to the untimely death of 5-year-old Talia Williams and an amendment I have submitted that seeks to close the loophole that allowed Talia to slip…