WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, today announced that Department of the Interior (DOI) has awarded $20 million to bolster climate resilience in Hawai'i. The new money from DOI's Kapapahuliau Climate Resilience Program was funded through a Schatz-authored provision in the Inflation Reduction Act. Funding will be awarded to 17 Native Hawaiian Organizations (N  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) and 27 of their Senate colleagues in introducing a constitutional amendment making clear that no one in the United States is above the law, including the president. This follows the unprecedented Supreme Court decision in Trump v. United States, in which the Court ruled that immunity from criminal prosecution covers a p  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led 28 of her Senate colleagues in introducing a constitutional amendment making clear that no one in the United States is above the law, including the President. In addition to Senator Hirono, the amendment is cosponsored by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Senators Laphonza Butler (D-CA), Tom Carper (D-  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and leading champion for Supreme Court reform, released the following statement on President Biden's Supreme Court reform proposal: "Unbound by norms, the Supreme Court has shown itself all too willing to throw out longstanding precedent, putting its ideological agenda above our constitution. The result is a Court deepl  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Representatives Norma Torres (D-CA), Hank Johnson (D-GA), and Jerry Nadler (D-NY) released a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report addressing the Judiciary's policies and practices to prevent and respond to workplace misconduct. The Administrative Off  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) and Representative Jill Tokuda (D-HI) introduced the Protecting and Preserving Social Security Act, legislation that would strengthen Social Security's financial state and ensure that seniors continue to benefit from the programs they have paid into throughout their lives. "Social Security provides crucial support to millions of kupuna, people with disabilities, a  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee today approved seven measures authored by U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i). The provisions, included as amendments to several bills, would improve fire weather forecasts and warnings in remote or rural areas in Hawai'i and across the country and promote the use of artificial intelligence to better predict and respond to extreme weather, among oth  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after three Americans including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, and journalist Alsu Kurmasheva as well as columnist Vladimir Kara-Murza, were freed from Russian captivity as part of a broader multi-country prisoner swap. "Evan Gershkovich h  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on July 29, 2024: U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, today announced that Department of the Interior (DOI) has awarded $20 million to bolster climate resilience in Hawaii. The new money from DOI's Kapapahuliau Climate Resilience Program was funded through a Schatz-authored provision in the Inflation Reducti  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), vice chairman of the Committee, released the following statements on the Department of the Interior's release of its second and final investigative report initiated by its Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative. In addition to  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), vice chairman of the Committee, led Committee passage of the following bills at a business meeting: * S.2783, Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act; * S.3406, Technical Corrections to the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water P  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) delivered remarks on the Senate floor marking one year since the devastating Maui wildfires. During her speech, Senator Hirono paid tribute to the individuals lost in the fires, honored the resilience of those impacted by the fires, and also emphasized the need for Congress to pass a supplemental funding bill to provide the resources that Maui, and other communitie  more