WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) joined a bipartisan group of senators in calling on the Department of Defense (DoD) to address the increasing suicide rate among members of the National Guard. Recent suicide reports conducted by DoD found that the suicide mortality rate for the National Guard is consistently higher than that of Active Duty and Reserve members. "We cannot continue to treat the National   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Today, Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) announced $6.5 million in federal grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support construction of a new clinical research center - the first of its kind in the state - at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center that will focus on early-phase clinical trials. "Cancer patients in Hawaii currently have to travel to the mainland to access cutting-  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today introduced the Learning Excellence and Good Examples from New Developers (LEGEND) Act, legislation that would require the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to make certain operational models publicly available and utilize any innovations to improv  more