Mazie Hirono

These commonsense reforms among others included in the bill will help to implement our tourism strategy.

Thank you, Chairman Akaka, for calling today's hearing. You have been such a leader and champion in advancing the interests of the Native Hawaiian community.

I strongly support the passage of S. 65 and will continue working with the members of our delegation to see this measure advanced.

Don's compassion extended to those suffering abroad. He worked tirelessly to promote democracy around the world.

He recognized the power of education to further civil rights, and he strongly supported Historically Black Colleges and Native Hawaiian education.

He truly saw his life's work as a way to serve others and make the world a better and more just place.

This 100-year law I believe definitely needs to be revisited.

The cruise industry is growing in Hawaii, and that is a good thing.

Whatever happened to debarment? I mean, don't we have any kind of teeth with that? I mean, what happened to the good old days----

In this bill once a community of interest group of employees is identified...an employer who seeks to expand the bargaining unit...organizers would have to get more and more signatures in order to proceed with an election.

I should think that we would want to put that kind of provision--it is still, if we really want to be fair about things.

If we really cared about fair elections and fair efforts at organizing, then I think that there should be something in this bill that allows for the organizers to have access to the employee.

Increasing our national capacity to invest in infrastructure is what our country needs right now.

The proposal we are examining today was laid out by President Obama in his American Jobs Act.

I want to thank Chair Petri for convening this session to bring us up to date on what is happening with NextGen.

We have had so many hearings on the importance of quality early education, and all of them--I would say almost 100 percent of the people who have been testifying in this committee over the years have acknowledged that there is much…

Would you support Parent Academies to help parents use the information you're providing?

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Hawaii will be postponed.

With your help, it will.

I am here to ask for your support of the East-West Center, which, although located in Hawaii, has international programs and, in fact, they have programs in most of the Members' States.

It is not a foreign aid program and people make that mistake, that somehow the East-West Center is an arm of our foreign aid.

In my book, clean air and the health of the American people trump profits for polluters every time. I urge my colleagues to vote against this rule and against this bill.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Hawaii will be postponed. Amendment No. 11 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas The Acting…

I would like to close by reiterating once again that I think it is interesting that the FAA chooses to focus on the causes of cockpit smoke. Frankly, if there is smoke in the cockpit, I don't know that we need to be focusing that much on…

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. In view of the fact that you are in agreement with my amendment, if you would be so kind as to yield a minute of your time to my colleague, Colleen Hanabusa, so she may submit her remarks on this amendment.