WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 -- The Government Accountability Office has issued a report on the 2020 census. The report (GAO-20-282) is titled "Changes Planned to Improve Data Quality". The report was sent to Sen. Gary Peters, D-Michigan, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii on Dec. 20, 2019. Here are excerpts of summaries associated with the report. What GAO Found: "To determine where people should be counted during each dec  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 -- Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) announced Jasmine Cadotte, a sophomore at Kalaheo High School in Kailua, O'ahu, as the winner of the 2019 Congressional App Challenge for Hawaii's second congressional district. Cadotte developed an app called Fake News Detector, which uses artificial intelligence to sift through news stories on social media and analyzes the credibility of its sources. "I was inspired to create th  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Legislation authored by U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i) to fight online child exploitation was signed into law on Friday. The new Schatz law will help the Pentagon stop the unacceptable use of the Defense Department's (DoD) network to view, possess, trade, procure, and even produce child pornography. "This law will give our military leaders the tools they need to get rid of child pornography on DoD's n  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 31 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, secured $1.1 million for a first-ever Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps program at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa. The funding was included in the bipartisan spending deal signed into law by the president this month. "This new ROTC program at UH will give more Hawaii students a chance at earning scholarship  more