WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: * * * - 13 Senators: Top Corporations And Financial Firms Have Already Pledged To Fight Deforestation - Now They Ought To Deliver * * * U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) led a group of 13 senators in writing a pair of letters to corporate signatories to the New York Declaration on Forests, calling for the major companies and financial firms to wield their influence to   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined Senators Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) in a letter to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) urging them to reverse their decision to terminate the Filipino World War II Veterans Parole Program. This program was created to allow aging Filipino World War II veterans to reunite with their children and siblings who have been approved for family-  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, issued the following news release: Today, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) joined Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) and a group of Senate Democrats to write to Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, urging him to rescind the Trump Administration's decision to terminate the Filipino World War II Veterans Parole Program (FWVP). "Over the past two years, the Trump administration has repeate  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, issued the following news release: Today, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) joined Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) and a group of their Senate Democratic colleagues to introduce the Protect American Values Act - legislation that would prohibit the Trump Administration from using federal funding to implement its so-called "public charge" rule. Scheduled to go into effect on October 15, 2019, the "public charge" rule aims to preven  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: * * * - The Protect American Values Act Would Prohibit the Government from Using Federal Funds to Carry Out Latest Trump Administration Attack on Immigrant Families * * * Today, Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) and 26 Senate Democrats introduced the Protect American Values Act - legislation that would prohibit the Trump Administration from using federal funding to implement its so-called "public char  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) and 13 Senate Democrats wrote to Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, urging him to rescind the Trump Administration's decision to terminate the Filipino World War II Veterans Parole Program (FWVP). "Over the past two years, the Trump administration has repeatedly attacked immigrants, and once again, its anti-immigrant dispos  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Today, the House Education and Labor Committee is scheduled to debate and vote on H.R. 4301, the School Shooting Safety and Preparedness Act which was introduced last week by Reps. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02), Lucy McBath (GA-06), and Jahana Hayes (CT-05). The bill, which would create a federal definition for "school shooting" and instructs the Departments of Education, in consultation with the Departments of Jus  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * - Warren, Colleagues Call for Pell Grant Eligibility to be Restored for Defrauded Students * * * Last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) and Representative Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.) along with Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Chris Murphy (D-Conn) as well as Representatives Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.), and Lucy McBath (D-Ga.) reintroduced the Pell Grant Restora  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * - The Protect American Values Act Would Prohibit the Government from Using Federal Funds to Carry Out Latest Trump Administration Attack on Immigrant Families * * * U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., joined U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, to introduce legislation that would prohibit the Trump administration from using federal funding to implement its so-called "public charge" rule. Scheduled to g  more