“To me it’s just bizarre … What business does a Hawaii representative have doing these kind of foreign affairs?” said Gaye Chan, chairwoman of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawaii"
What a ridiculous question, and from a university department chairperson!!  
It's refreshing to have legislators actually going to the source for firsthand, up close exposure to what is happening in hot spots around the world, in order to report factual information back to constituents.
As a chairwoman of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawaii, I would hope Ms. Chan would travel the world visiting historical sights and museums, to have personal knowledge of her subject matter.