WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- Del. Gregorio Sablan, D-Northern Mariana Islands, issued the following information: Allowing veterans and their families to use the GI bill to pay for preparatory courses for professional license and certification exams is gaining support. U.S. Senators Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Mike Rounds (R-South Dakota) introduced a Senate companion to my legislation expanding GI bill benefits in that way. The GI Bill Access to Career Credentials Act, H.R. 2934 in the House and now  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Earlier this week, Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii), Tom Udall (D-N.M.), and thirteen of their U.S. Senate colleagues sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler urging him to reconsider the decision not to ban chlorpyrifos, a toxic pesticide linked to brain damage in children and known to cause serious harm to human health. In the letter, the Senators ask the EPA t  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Earlier this week, Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and 39 of their U.S. Senate Democratic colleagues sent a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin to urge against unilaterally cutting capital gains taxes for the wealthiest Americans by an additional $100 billion over ten years. In their letter, the Senators argued that cutting the capital gains ta  more