[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 133 (Wednesday, September 17, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H7629-H7630]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             REMEMBER PUNA

  (Ms. HANABUSA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. HANABUSA. Madam Speaker, my home State of Hawaii is a unique and 
a very special place. There isn't a day that goes by that either a 
colleague or someone stops me to share with me a very special story 
about Hawaii.
  I stand here today to ask that you remember us in a different way: a 
State with a very active volcano which is now within a residential area 
called the Kaohe homestead, and with lava that is flowing at a rate of 
705 feet a day, soon to wipe out a major highway and who knows how many 
other subdivisions in its way.
  This area is known as Puna, the same area which took the brunt of the 
hurricane, later a tropical storm, Iselle in August of this year. You 
know, they still have not recuperated from that storm, and now they 
have to contend with the lava.

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  So I ask my colleagues, Madam Speaker, that when we look at FEMA, 
Department of Agriculture, other agencies which will be able to help 
us, that when we look at the funding of first responders, that you 
remember Hawaii, you remember our Big Island, and you remember the 
people of Puna.

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