WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 3, 2023: The Department of the Interior today announced a nearly $580 million allocation to continue fulfilling settlements of Indian water rights claims using funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Reclamation Water Settlements Fund. "The federal government's trust responsibility to Native communities includes providing Tribes with access t  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Jan. 31, 2023: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (Mass.-7), along with Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Congresswomen Sylvia Garcia (Texas-29), Abigail Spanberger (Va.-07), Cori Bush (Mo.-1), Madeleine Dean (Pa.-4) and Sydney Kamlager-Dove (Calif.-37) announced today the introduction of a bicameral, joint resolu  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- Rep. Ed Case, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Congressman Ed Case (D - Hawaii) and Congressman Steve Womack (R - Arkansas) today announced the re-introduction of their Sustainable Budget Act, a measure they first introduced in November 2019 and reintroduced in the just-completed 117th Congress (2021-2023). "Three years ago, on introduction of our original measure and with total debt at $23 trillion and debt-to-GDP at 107%, I said on the House floor that our f  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Rep. Ed Case, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2023: Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) today confirmed his reappointment to a third term on the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, responsible for overseeing and funding all federal government agencies, departments and organizations on an annual basis. The Committee works through twelve separate subcommittees, each focusing on specific portions of the federal budget. Case won appointment to the Subcommittee  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Rep. Ed Case, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on Feb. 3, 2023: Congressman Ed Case (HI-01), following on his reappointment to the House Appropriations Committee, has also been reappointed to the House Natural Resources Committee for a third term. The Committee's broad jurisdiction includes federal environmental protection and conservation laws and programs, federal lands, energy and mineral resources, water, oceans and wildlife, U.S. territories, indigenous pe  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) applauded the U.S. Mint's announcement that its 2024 American Women Quarters collection will include a quarter honoring Rep. Patsy T. Mink, the first woman to represent Hawaii in the U.S. Congress and the first woman of color to serve in Congress. The announcement follows a letter Senator Hirono sent to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in 2021 urging the Mint to include th  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) joined Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) in a press conference calling on Republicans to show the American people their plan to end the threat of a first-ever default on the national debt. "The Trump administration added to the debt with the massive tax breaks that they gave to the richest people an  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on Jan. 31, 2023: U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) joined several of her House and Senate colleagues to introduce a bicameral resolution affirming the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would enshrine gender equity in the U.S. Constitution. Despite the required 38 states voting to ratify the amendment, ratification has been stalled due to an arbitrary deadline put in place when Congre  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (TNSrpt) -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro pressing him for details on the Navy's response to the fuel leaks at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility on Oahu. Specifically, Senator Hirono requests updates on a series of recommendations made in Admiral Samuel Paparo's report on the investigation into the Ma  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) led 5 of their Senate colleagues in sending a letter to Danco Laboratories, a manufacturer of mifepristone, urging them to submit an application to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to add miscarriage management to the medication's label--which currently only includes medication abortion but can also be s  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, joined Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in a letter to the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Education (ED) amid reports of students being forced to join the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) program. The lawmakers also raised concern about  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Rep. Jill Tokuda, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2023: Representative Jill Tokuda (HI-02) announced her appointment to serve on the House Armed Services Subcommittees on Readiness and Military Personnel. The Readiness Subcommittee oversees military training, and logistics; maintenance issues and programs; military construction, installations and family housing issues; and the Base Realignment and Closure process. It also oversees civilian personnel  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release and letter: United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter, along with Senators Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, to the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Education (ED) amid reports of students being forced to join the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps  more