I'll certainly continue to coordinate with Jane Sawyer of SBA.

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Our immediate response has been focused on relief efforts, but these communities will require additional resources to recover from these disasters.

If you were confronted with such a circumstance with this Administration, would you stand your ground?

I hope that extends to advocating on their behalf and to say that this is not a time to be eliminating net neutrality.

I think you are well aware that the history and culture in Hawaii is very different from that in Oklahoma or Florida or Maine or any of the indigenous peoples' culture.

So small businesses in all of these communities must completely rebuild, and they're severely impacted by losses in visitor revenue.

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prior to Puerto Rico, the Corps had never repaired an electric power grid of this magnitude as part of a domestic disaster response and could not predict the assignment from FEMA to restore the grid.

I think that is a very clear example of one place being prepared in anticipation of the disaster and another hoping to get lucky and they did not get lucky.

So obviously there needs to be more coordination because we can expect various kind of weather conditions to be hitting simultaneously in all parts of the country and our territories.

I would want to work with you as to how to ameliorate those kinds of dramatic cuts to these programs.