WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: * * * Hirono, Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Support Veteran-Owned Small Businesses WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), a member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, joined Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and U.S. Representatives Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) in introducing the Veterans Member Business Loan Act. This bipartis  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: * * * Hirono, Padilla, Merkley Statement on Passage of Laken Riley Act Lawmakers: "Our country needs comprehensive, bipartisan immigration reform. Rather than fixing our broken immigration system, this legislation will further complicate it." WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senators Alex Padilla (D-CA) and Jeff Merkley   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: * * * Schatz Discusses Strengthening Security, Economic Ties With Philippine Ambassador, Reaffirms Commitment to Alliance WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after meeting with the Ambassador of the Republic of the Philippines to the United States Jose Manuel Romualdez. "Ambassador Romualdez and I ha  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: * * * Schatz Meets With Members of South Korean National Assembly, Reiterates Commitment to U.S.-ROK Alliance WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Chair of the Senate Korea Caucus, released the following statement after meeting with a bipartisan delegation from the Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee of the Republic of Korea's Nati  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: * * * Schatz Secures U.N. Ambassador Nominee Elise Stefanik's Pledge To Support Pacific Island Nations, Counter China; Challenges Trump's 90-Day Aid Pause WASHINGTON -- At today's Senate Foreign Relations Committee nomination hearing for U.S. Representative to the United Nations nominee U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i) urged Stefanik to commit to strengtheni  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: * * * Schatz Statement on Confirmation of Marco Rubio as Secretary of State WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement after U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was confirmed by a vote of 99-0 to serve as Secretary of State. "Having served with Senator Marco Rubio on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I know h  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: * * * Schatz Statement on President Biden Commuting Life Sentence of Leonard Peltier WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), Vice Chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, released the following statement after President Biden commuted Native American activist Leonard Peltier's sentence. Peltier, now 80 years old, has been imprisoned for the past 49 years after he was convicted of murder   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: * * * Schatz: Nothing Trump Did on First Day in Office Will Lower Costs for People WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Brian Schatz released the following statement on President Donald Trump's recent executive actions. "Nothing Trump did on his first day in office will lower costs for people. Instead, his actions will threaten people's constitutional citizenship rights, separate families, and reverse hard-fought pr  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: * * * Schatz: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Whose Dangerous Lies Fueled Measles Outbreak in Samoa & Caused Preventable Deaths, Unqualified To Lead HHS WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i) took to the Senate floor today to detail how President Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., spread dangerous lies about vaccines which directly led to disease out  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: * * * VIDEO: Hirono, Omar Reintroduce Neighbors Not Enemies Act to Repeal 18th Century Xenophobic Law U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) and U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) re-introduced the Neighbors Not Enemies Act, legislation that would repeal the antiquated Alien Enemies Act (AEA) of 1798, which has been used to target innocent immigrants based on nothing more than national origin, without af  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Warren, Kaine, Kelly, Senate Armed Services Committee Democrats Joint Statement on New Hegseth Report Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY.), all members of the Senate Armed Services Committee,  more