WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Dec. 1, 2022: U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Mazie Hirono (D- Hawaii), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Ed Markey (D- Mass.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) today introduced the Small Business Development Centers Improvement Act of 2022--legislation to reauthorize and improve the U.S. Small Business Admi  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-New Mexico, issued the following statement on Dec. 1, 2022: * * * Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernandez issued the following statement after passage of her Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony or STOP Act, which now heads to the President's desk to be signed into law. "This week has been historic for Tribal Nations - from New Mexico to Alaska to Hawaii - as the Senate passed my bill, H.R. 2930, the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony or   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) announced that the Hawaii State Department of Health will receive $14.4 million in federal funding to improve critical public health infrastructure throughout the state as part of the newly developed Public Health Infrastructure Grant Program. The grant program--which is supported in part by the American Rescue Plan--provides awards directly to state, local, and territori  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) voted to pass the Respect for Marriage Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation that she cosponsored to protect marriage equality in federal law, which passed the Senate by a vote of 61-36. The amended House bill must now be voted on again by the U.S. House before being sent to President Biden's desk to be signed into law. "When the right-wing Supreme Court eliminated the const  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced legislation with Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) to strengthen civil rights protections against harassment in schools. The Students' Access to Freedom & Educational Rights Act (SAFER) Act would amend the burdensome standards for harassment lawsuits brought under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) and crea  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) joined six of her Senate colleagues in urging President Joe Biden to commute the sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist convicted of murder in 1977 following a controversial investigation and trial, which many civil rights leaders and legal experts have called unjust, including the U.S. Attorney who prosecuted the case. The letter, led by Senat  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 -- Rep. Susan Wild, D-Pennsylvania, acting chairperson, and Rep. Michael Guest, R-Mississippi, acting ranking member, of the House Ethics Committee, issued the following joint statement regarding Rep. Kaiali'i Kahele, D-Hawaii: * * * Pursuant to Committee Rule 7, the Acting Chairwoman and Acting Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics (Committee) determined to release the following statement: On August 30, 2022, the Committee received a referral from the Office of Congre  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, renewed efforts to urge President Joe Biden to commute the sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist convicted of murder in 1977 following a controversial investigation and trial, which many civil rights leaders and legal experts have called unjust, including the U.S. Attorney who prosecuted the   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on Nov. 30, 2022: U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) today announced that Hawaii will receive $5.6 million in new federal funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce to expand high-speed internet access in unserved and underserved communities. "Everyone in Hawaii should have access to high-speed internet," said Senator Schatz, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee. "This funding will allow us to   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined Senator Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) in responding to the U.S. Department of Commerce issuing a preliminary affirmative determination in their investigation into solar panels and cells imported from Malaysi  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on Nov. 30, 2022: Today at a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee (SVAC) hearing about Native veterans, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono pressed officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to always include Native Hawaiian veterans when discussing and developing policies to better support Native veterans. Additionally, Senator Hirono questioned the VA officials on steps they are taking to address the dispr  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on Nov. 29, 2022: * * * U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, released the following statement on Senate passage of H.R. 2930, the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony (STOP) Act of 2021. The Committee favorably reported the bill's Senate companion last year. "For too long, the export and sale of sacred and cu  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release and letter: Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined his colleagues in a letter led by Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, in urging President Joe Biden to commute the sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist convicted of murder in 1977 following a controversial investigation and trial, which many civil rights leaders and legal experts   more