WASHINGTON, July 28 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following statement on July 27, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i) released the following statement after President Joe Biden announced new actions to protect workers and communities from extreme heat intensified by climate change. "Right now, millions of Americans are feeling a direct impact of the climate crisis. "These record heatwaves are dangerous to everyone, and especially those working jobs that require the  more

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- Rep. Ed Case, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on July 24, 2023: Congressman Ed Case's (HI-01) today announced the introduction of a bill in the U.S. House to end what he called in remarks in the Congressional Record "the exclusionary and discriminatory practices of private shipping services to Hawai'i and the other non-contiguous parts of our country." Case said Hawai'i, located almost 2,500 miles off the West Coast, and like other non-48 states parts of our   more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Rep. Ed Case, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on July 28, 2023: U.S. Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) today urged Hawai'i veterans and their survivors who may be eligible for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care benefits under the historic PACT Act of August 2022, and who have not yet applied for PACT Act benefits, to file or at least complete and submit an intent to file before Wednesday, August 9th to preserve eligibility for retroactive benefits back   more

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release and letter on July 24, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, led seven of her Democratic colleagues on the Committee in calling on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to help end Senator Tommy Tuberville's (R-AL) reckless hold on more than 260 military promotions. "Since February, Senator Tommy Tuberville [R-AL] has been single-handedly blocking  more

WASHINGTON, July 27 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and Senate Judiciary Committee, joined her colleagues in urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to launch an investigation into Shell, ExxonMobil, and potentially other fossil fuel companies to determine whether their coordinated campaigns of climate change deception violated federal law. "New   more

WASHINGTON, July 28 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on July 27, 2023: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced that a new federal grant program established by a law authored by U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i) to reward state and local governments that reform land-use policies and other local barriers that constrain the supply of affordable housing is set to begin accepting applications in the fall. "We need to legalize h  more

WASHINGTON, July 27 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on July 26, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i) reintroduced legislation to create a new progressive tax on financial transactions that would curb high-risk trading practices, reduce economic inequality, and generate $752 billion in new federal revenue over the next decade. "Wall Street has cashed in on high-risk trades that add no real value to our economy and leave working families behind. We  more

WASHINGTON, July 27 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i) and Todd Young (R-Ind.), both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, reintroduced legislation to promote press freedom and the protection of journalists worldwide. The Global Press Freedom Act would direct the U.S. State Department to establish an Ambassador-at-Large for press freedom and train Foreign Service Officers on how to help promote media independenc  more

WASHINGTON, July 28 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on July 27, 2023: Today, U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), John Fetterman (D-Pa.), and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) announced their support for the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act. The bipartisan bill, authored by U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), and Katie Britt (R-Ala.), would set a   more

WASHINGTON, July 28 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), vice chairman of the Committee, led a hearing on Native Priorities for the 2023 Farm Bill Reauthorization. Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska President Richard Peterson, Self-Governance Communication   more

WASHINGTON, July 28 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), vice chairman of the Committee, released the following statements on Senate passage of their amendment to reauthorize the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act (NAHASDA). A standalone NAHASDA reauthorizat  more

WASHINGTON, July 28 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on July 27, 2023: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., reintroduced the Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act today, following the bill's unanimous passage in the House Judiciary Committee last week. The bill, first introduced in 2021, blocks the government from purchasing information about Americans that would otherwise require a warrant. The bill is cosponsored by Sens. Brian Schatz, D-Ha  more