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Brian Schatz
American
Politician
Born:
Oct 20
,
1972
Change
Good
Health
People
Think
You
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We need a generation of net neutrality voters. People now really understand what's at stake, and we need to translate millions of comments to the FCC into millions of votes in the midterm.
Brian Schatz
Generation
People
Neutrality
Net
Voters
Votes
Understand
Comments
Stake
Translate
Really
Now
Millions
Need
The U.S. must continue to carefully withdraw troops from Afghanistan at a pace based on assessment of the ground conditions so we do not leave our Afghan partners unable to guarantee long-term security or risk Afghanistan becoming a terrorist safe haven again.
Brian Schatz
Carefully
Our
Unable
Security
Must
Haven
Risk
Troops
Long-Term
Safe
Safe Haven
Withdraw
Partners
Becoming
Terrorist
Leave
Continue
Conditions
Afghan
Afghanistan
Pace
Again
Ground
Based
Assessment
Guarantee
Health care has gotten really weird politically. We've sort of tied ourselves in knots on this issue in a way that we don't do... for criminal-justice reform or tax policy or climate policy.
Brian Schatz
Health
Care
Way
Ourselves
Weird
Knots
Policy
Sort
Tied
Health Care
Climate
Gotten
Issue
Reform
Politically
Tax
Tax Policy
Really
The scientific consensus is that climate change is real, urgent, and caused by humans. This science should be both supported and understood by anyone who hopes to lead NASA, one of our nation's top science agencies.
Brian Schatz
Change
Science
Nation
Our
Top
Hopes
Both
Lead
Supported
Scientific
Climate
Climate Change
Real
Understood
NASA
Caused
Anyone
Urgent
Agencies
Should
Who
Humans
Consensus
Hawaii feels so passionately about climate. You know, our oceans are warming. As a result, we have more ocean acidification and coral bleaching. You can actually see it.
Brian Schatz
You
Result
Ocean
Our
See
About
More
Hawaii
Feels
Know
Climate
Oceans
Passionately
Warming
Actually
Coral
That's how the Pell Grant system works, in that you get a flat dollar amount, and you can use it for tuition or room and board.
Brian Schatz
You
Pell
System
How
Dollar
Get
Tuition
Flat
Board
Room
Use
Grant
Works
Amount
One of things I have always been open to is making policy in the Senate Commerce Committee.
Brian Schatz
Open
Policy
Always
Making
Been
Commerce
Senate
Committee
Things
When the Obama administration passed the net neutrality rules in 2015, even when we were winning, I favored trying to get these rules in a statute, because I feel that the best way to establish predictability for the marketplace is to make sure they're not subject to the whims of a partisan vote at the FCC.
Brian Schatz
Best
Vote
Neutrality
Way
Marketplace
Rules
Favored
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Best Way
Net
Winning
Feel
Partisan
Make
Sure
Because
Passed
Were
Subject
Get
Trying
Establish
Predictability
Whims
Even
I am always open to a conversation. I am always open to a bipartisan compromise.
Brian Schatz
Conversation
Compromise
Open
Always
Am
Bipartisan
The Internet is working because it's free and open, and there's no discrimination. Without these rules, ISPs could treat content differently based on commercial interests or even ideology.
Brian Schatz
Treat
Internet
Free
Ideology
Rules
Could
Open
Content
Because
Without
Discrimination
Commercial
Interests
Working
Even
Based
Differently
The most important thing to remember here is that the Internet is not broken, and all of the innovation that we've seen since inception has been based on it being free and open.
Brian Schatz
Broken
Innovation
Remember
Internet
Free
Seen
Important
Has-Been
Open
Since
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
Been
Being
The Most Important
Inception
Based
Thing
Here
To address the open question of whether we are addicted to technological devices and platforms, Congress must understand the current scientific consensus, potential gaps in research, and the best way to build a body of evidence that can inform effective policymaking.
Brian Schatz
Best
Build
Congress
Research
Addicted
Address
Way
Evidence
Must
Best Way
Potential
Open
Devices
Scientific
Understand
Question
Effective
Current
Inform
Whether
Body
Gaps
Platforms
Technological
Consensus
If someone wants to do a carbon fee and someone else wants to do a cap on emissions or a renewable portfolio standard, we don't start labeling each other as more or less progressive.
Brian Schatz
Labeling
Other
Else
Progressive
Someone
More
More Or Less
Emissions
Fee
Renewable
Wants
Cap
Standard
Less
Each
Carbon
Portfolio
Start
James Bridenstine is a climate denier with no scientific background who has made a career out of ignoring science.
Brian Schatz
Science
Made
Background
Out
Scientific
Climate
James
Ignoring
Who
Career
For several days in July of 2012, Greenland surface ice cover melted more than at any time in 30 years of satellite observation. During that month, an estimated 97% of the ice sheet thawed.
Brian Schatz
Time
Month
Several
Melted
More
Observation
Days
Sheet
Surface
Cover
Years
July
Than
Greenland
Any
Estimated
Ice
Satellite
Our objective should be to have a competition of ideas... I think it's a golden age in terms of policy ideas when it comes to Democrats and health care.
Brian Schatz
Health
Age
Competition
Care
Think
Our
Objective
Ideas
Terms
Policy
Health Care
Democrats
Golden
Golden Age
Should
When former president Lyndon B. Johnson unveiled his plans for the program that would become Medicaid, he reflected on the future of public policy in the United States.
Brian Schatz
Future
Become
Lyndon
President
States
Would
Johnson
He
Policy
Unveiled
His
Reflected
Former
Public
Plans
Public Policy
United
United States
Medicaid
Program
There is a growing consensus in the private sector that companies can and should take action to address the problem of gun violence in our country.
Brian Schatz
Problem
Gun
Country
Action
Our
Address
Sector
Take
Private
Private Sector
Should
Companies
Growing
Consensus
Violence
This was a theme of Sen. Akaka's career - to advocate for people who did not have power, for people who were vulnerable. He was a champion for the federal government employees who continue to this day to be a punching bag for some.
Brian Schatz
Government
Day
Champion
People
Power
Employees
Punching
Some
Federal
Federal Government
He
Bag
Vulnerable
Advocate
Were
Continue
Did
Theme
Who
Career
The East-West Center directly supports the U.S. rebalance to the Asia Pacific through cooperative study, research, and dialogue with countries in the region.
Brian Schatz
Research
Directly
Through
Study
Countries
Supports
Dialogue
Center
Pacific
Region
Asia
Cooperative
Because these credit agencies operate in the dark, they are allowed to be terribly unfair and unaccountable.
Brian Schatz
Dark
Unfair
Unaccountable
Allowed
Operate
Terribly
Because
Agencies
Credit
Millions of Americans have bad credit because of mistakes from credit agencies, and it can ruin lives, stopping people from getting a job or owning a home or car.
Brian Schatz
Home
People
Car
Job
Mistakes
Ruin
Bad
Because
American
Getting
Owning
Stopping
Agencies
Lives
Credit
Millions
It's important and good to email the Federal Communications Commission, and it's important and good to educate your friends via social media about what's happening. But in a representative democracy, the way to get policy changes is through elections.
Brian Schatz
Good
Democracy
Social Media
Important
Changes
Email
Way
About
Through
Federal
Policy
Educate
Friends
Get
Commission
Via
Representative
Happening
Social
Communications
Elections
Your
Media
I think there's a short-term legislative strategy. I think there's a longer-term legislative strategy in terms of enshrining net neutrality principles into law rather than a rule, and I think there's an election strategy.
Brian Schatz
Law
Election
Neutrality
Strategy
Think
Rule
Net
Rather
Terms
Principles
Than
Legislative
Short-Term
Telecom companies are doing very, very well. And the internet economy is doing very, very well.
Brian Schatz
Internet
Telecom
Economy
Well
Doing
Very
Companies
Congressman Bridenstine's legislative record and his own testimony during his nomination hearing show that he rejects NASA's role in earth science, adopts industry perspectives without critical analysis, and embraces extreme and divisive social views. NASA deserves better.
Brian Schatz
Science
Better
Own
Analysis
Extreme
Earth
Critical
Embraces
Record
Adopt
He
Divisive
Nomination
Industry
Without
NASA
Testimony
His
Hearing
Role
Legislative
Social
Perspectives
Show
Congressman
Views
Deserves
Rejects
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