<div style="padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:5px;"> <b>Major Legislative Achievments</b> </div> <b>Agriculture</b> <br> • Research for valuable by-products of sugar-promotion and marketing of ag products <br> • Agricultural loans <br> • Marshaling and packing centers <br> <br> <b>Education</b> <br> • New schools, classrooms and gyms <br> • Accelerate repair and maintenance of existing facilities <br> • Upgrade of instructions <br> • Advance new programs <br> <br> <b>UH-Hilo</b> <br> • Hawaiian Language Center <br> • Small Business Development Center <br> • Center for Study of Active Volcanoes <br> • Agriculture Action Alliance with UH-Manoa <br> • Nursing program <br> • Women's-Child care <br> • Student housing <br> • New classrooms <br> <br> <b>Healthcare</b> <br> • Long term and elderly care center <br> <br> <b>Water Resources:</b> <br> • Reservoir repair <br> • Ditch acquisition <br> • Exploratory wells <br> • Pumps <br> <br> <b>Maui Community College</b> <br> • Hawaiian Language center <br> • Campus Master plan <br> • Sky Bridge <br> • Nursing program <br> • Classroom buildings <br> • Women's Center <br> <br> <b>Transportation</b> <br> • Airport and harbor expansion <br> • Highway improvements <br> <br> <b>Affordable Housing</b> <br> • Coordination of State housing Finance and Development Corp. with private landowners and developers <br> <br> <b>Crime</b> <br> • Strengthened gun laws <br> • Criminal record checks of school personnel <br> • Increase victim compensation <br> <br> <b>Business</b> <br> • Commercialization of research efforts <br> • Accessible venture capital <br> <br> <b>Tax</b> <br> • Tax credits, more exemptions <br> • Lowering tax brackets