Harriet Hageman

Are you aware that NEPA requires agencies to assess and resolve programmatic conflicts before moving forward with a rule?

Do you have an estimated date by when you will have it completed?

Thank you for the question, but I believe that is a question for Deputy Director Owens.

Wonderful. Thank you for that.

Thank you for the question, Chair.

The way the U.S. can maximally support the development of the Pacific Islands is for it to become a full PIF member.

The U.S. federal government not only can and should facilitate a deeper membership engagement there of its Pacific territories.

Thank you once again, Madam Chair, for holding today's hearing. I look forward to hearing our witnesses explain the need of Congress to swiftly pass the COFA agreements once they are transmitted.

The People's Republic of China, or the PRC, is actively seeking to increase its influence in the region and undermine U.S. interests.

It is a description of a complete subversion of sovereignty.

Thankfully, the Biden administration's Special Presidential Envoy for Compact Negotiations has successfully negotiated and secured signed memorandums of understanding with all three compact nations to extend financial assistance for an…

If we let the economic assistance to the Freely Associated States end, we run the risk that the PRC will fill the vacuum in the region.

In other words, collective resilience, we need to work together with our allies and our partners. That is how we strengthen our position.

With the People's Republic of China's increased presence in the Pacific in recent years, it is a top bipartisan, I believe very bipartisan, strategic priority to renew the financial provisions of the FAS compacts when they expire at the…

We will appreciate any insights on how U.S. engagement will contribute to stability in the region and counter China's malign influence on our friends and our allies.

America has not forgotten the lessons of World War II and the Cold War.

The PRC has adopted a strategy of disruption and destabilization aimed at what I am told by one of our witnesses has described as political and social entropy in small, vulnerable nations.

The U.S. gains extraordinary security rights in return for U.S. economic assistance.

The United States has an interest in a free and open Indo-Pacific that is free from a malign influence.

The United States is a Pacific power through its territories of Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa.

Again, you didn't answer my question, but that is just the way that it goes with this Administration.

You haven't answered my question. Will you work closely with Congress and the tribes to ensure that we can expedite the tribal applications for permits to drill?

Will you commit to working with Congress and the tribes to expedite approval of tribal applications for permits to drill?

Just wanted to make that correction.

Is there a specific policy in place to promote tribal members being able to serve in their own community as medical professionals?