"Will you commit to working with Congress and the tribes to expedite approval of tribal applications for permits to drill?"
"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?"
"The United States is a Pacific power through its territories of Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa."
"The United States has an interest in a free and open Indo-Pacific that is free from a malign influence."
"It is a description of a complete subversion of sovereignty."
"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."
"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..."
"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 ..."
"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."
"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."