WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -- Rep. Ed Case, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: U.S. Congressman Ed Case (D-HI-01) and U.S. Congressman Steve Womack (R-AR-03) are leading a bipartisan effort to urge U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson to endorse and facilitate approval by the U.S. Congress of their Compact of Free Association (COFA) Amendments Act of 2023 at the earliest opportunity. The two, both of whose serve on the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, headed a letter (copy attached), co-s  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: HONOLULU - U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawai'i) and U.S. Representatives Jill Tokuda (D-Hawai'i) and Ed Case (D-Hawai'i) introduced a resolution celebrating Mahina ?Olelo Hawai?i, also known as Hawaiian Language Month. "This February, we celebrate Mahina 'Olelo Hawai'i and the Native language schools and programs that work every day to preserve the Hawaiian language and culture  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) and Brian Schatz (D-HI), and U.S. Representatives Jill Tokuda (D-HI) and Ed Case (D-HI), introduced a resolution celebrating Mahina Olelo Hawaii, also known as Hawaiian Language Month. "Indigenous languages are critical to the perpetuation of any culture," said Senator Hirono. "However, decades of policies banning the teaching of olelo Hawaii, including an outright ban  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -- Rep. Adam Smith, D-Washington, issued the following news release: Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) led a letter with Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and 31 members of Congress to Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to implement a policy to address the gap in citizenship facing intercountry adoptees who did not acquire citizenship when they were adopted. The members called on DHS to implement a prosecutorial discretion policy t  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: HONOLULU - U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i) and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg today toured multiple infrastructure projects on O'ahu which have received federal funding, including through the historic infrastructure law Congress passed in 2021. Schatz, chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, and Buttigieg visited the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -- Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) led a bipartisan group of senators, all of whom are currently participating in the Munich Security Conference, in a joint statement following the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Joining Risch and Shaheen were U.S. Se  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and James Lankford (R-Okla.) wrote today to U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan to express "serious concerns" about the World Health Organization's (WHO) proposed global accord on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response, which would weaken intellectual property (IP) protections for companies that use pub  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) as well as Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) sent a letter to President Biden expressing concern around any additional transfer of U.S. weapons, including bombs, to the Netanyahu government in light of the current humanitarian disaster in Gaza and the developing crisis in Rafah. The Senators go on to pre  more