Mazie Hirono

I am also pleased to see the creative use of telemedicine, as I have supported legislation to expand VA's utilization of telemedicine.

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…

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.

I think the next President should see if he or she could convene a summit fairly early on in his or her tenure.

We have two separate issues. We have changing the system for the future, and that is the reform that is in Senator Blumenthal's draft bill.

The current system is broken. It is never ending. And we are just going to--it is going to continue to get worse if we do not take action.

The Department generally concurred with our recommendations, but as of May 2016, had not addressed four of the six recommendations.

We continue to ask what happens to the money and where are the results.

The modernization and the interoperability of medical records, et cetera, it has been such an ongoing challenge.

I thank the Senator for his response. What could be more fundamental a job for government than to keep our people and our communities safe.

I think that's important.

Can you very briefly go over what you're doing to increase diversity in the CIA?

It could be 20, 30, 40 years and so that commitment will also commit the rate payers to paying for basically the cost of building the pipeline would go to the rate payers.

This is also not an inexpensive proposition because our gas company is looking to spend some $200 million in order to set up this system.

This is something that FERC is undertaking?

I thank all of the witnesses.

I think that kind of awkward closeness is particularly of concern.

I support Sen. Boxer's bill S. 2487 the Female Veteran Suicide Prevention Act.

One advantage ISIL has persisted in is its ability to recruit young men and women and influence actors around the world through its online media campaign.

I'm afraid that a five percent reduction requirement will put a lot of pressure on the agencies to focus on those that are--for which we have tools and which are more easily measured.

I think it also needs to be said that all these land managing agencies are confronted by hundreds of different kinds of invasive species.

The major concern is that the least expensive often will be something like use of pesticides, and the people in my state would be very concerned about that.

I have a concern that the least costly option would often time result in the use of pesticides, and in Hawaii we have major concerns about the use of pesticides on our islands.

So basically my concern was that the provisions of the percentages were really prescriptive and may not help in a particular situation.