As the only Buddhist ever to be elected to the United States Senate, thank you for your advocacy on behalf of religious diversity.

I believe that both of you would be able to do that.

Judicial appointments should not be politicized; they must be based on merit.

I am a person who understands how important representation is.

So can somebody respond to me, do you have something in writing that says here are all the different things that we're going to need to do to mitigate what happens in a disaster so that you can continue to provide services to the Veterans?

And that includes instances where your infrastructure and facilities are destroyed during a natural disaster. There's a plan B?

In August, Hawaii experienced our worst natural disaster since becoming a State in 1959 and the deadliest wildfire in our country since 1918.

Thank you. This is for Dr. Balbus--am I pronouncing correctly? So in your testimony, you stated that the climate-related extreme weather events and disasters can disrupt healthcare systems at multiple points, creating a surge in healthcare demand, resulting in staffing shortages.

I would be very interested in knowing how many, because it seems to me that clinical trials is one of the ways that people sign up for these trials.

So when you say the VA funded clinical trials, how many VA funded clinical trials are there?

I don't imagine that you have a lot of Asian Native Hawaiian cohorts in this 1 million population.