HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 25 -- Rep. Ed Case, D-Hawaii, issued the following statement on June 24 with the announcement from Hawaii Gov. David Ige plans to reopen trans-Pacific airline travel Aug. 1: "It is tragic that the U.S. Department of Justice at the direction of Attorney General Barr would cripple the best public health outcome in the country and risk the lives of Hawai'i residents and visitors alike and our economic recovery for the interests of out-of-state owners of Hawai'i properties an  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 27 -- Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) -- through the Health Resources and Services Administration's Health Center Program -- is awarding $3,034,982 to Hui Malama Ola Na Oiwi to provide healthcare and wellness services to Native Hawaiians. The funds are part of a continuing grant. Two weeks ago, HHS issued similar awards to Ho'ola Lahui Hawai'i  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) voted to pass H.R.7120, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act which aims to improve accountability and transparency in policing in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, the victim of a recent, widely-publicized instance of police brutality. The bill was passed in the House by a vote of 236-181 and now heads to the Senate for consideration. "George Floyd's murder in broad day  more

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Reps. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) and Ed Case (HI-01) along with Hawai'i's U.S. Senators Mazie K. Hirono and Brian Schatz, urged U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue to utilize USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) emergency funding if necessary to quickly detect and eradicate the Asian giant hornet, sometimes referred to as the murder hornet. These giant hornets' arrival to   more

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) wrote to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Department of Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Operation Warp Speed (OWS) Chief Advisor Dr. Moncef Slaoui, and Army Material Command Commanding General Gustave F. Perna, urging them to provide briefings to Congress every two weeks on the status of the administration's initiative to develop, manufacture, an  more

WASHINGTON, June 24 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii), along with delegation colleagues Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Representative Ed Case (D-Hawaii), and Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), urged U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue to utilize USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) emergency funding if necessary to quickly detect and eradicate the Asian giant hornet, sometimes   more

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) announced that the Hawaii Department of Health (HDOH) will receive more than $5.6 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through the Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) program. Funding under PHEP allows state health departments, along with local and territorial agencies, to strengthen their response to public health threats like infectious di  more

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i) led a group of senators in calling on the Federal Reserve ("the Fed") to require banks to suspend dividend payments to shareholders as the economy struggles to recover from the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. The senators urged Fed Chair Jerome Powell and Vice Chair Randal Quarles to ensure banks conserve capital now so that they can continue lending if the economic fallout from  more

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii ) announced that Hawaii is set to receive $537,823 to support four Native Hawaii an and educational institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic. These federal funds will go towards operating expenses, including wages for instructors, and transitioning to virtual learning programs. "This new federal funding will help make sure that the important programs that preserve and sha  more

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on June 24: U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i) and John Thune (R-S.D.), the Ranking Member and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet, introduced the Platform Accountability and Consumer Transparency (PACT) Act, new bipartisan legislation to update Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The PACT Act will strengthen transparency in the process online   more

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet, joined Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), ranking member of the subcommittee, in introducing the Platform Accountability and Consumer Transparency (PACT) Act, new bipartisan legislation to update Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The PACT Act will strengthen transparency in the p  more