WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today announced that the U S Department of the Treasury and the U S Department of Housing and Urban Development will allocate an additional 13 9 million under the American Rescue Plan to hel...

With student loans spiraling upward U S Sen Brian Schatz is sponsoring the Debt Free College Act which aims to ensure low income students can attend public colleges without going into debt There s something wrong with a society that says it...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i Roger Wicker R Miss Ben Cardin D Md John Thune R S D Mark Warner D Va and Cindy Hyde Smith R Miss led a bipartisan group of 50 senators in reintroducing the Creating Opportunities Now for...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today introduced new legislation to support hotel workers and save jobs The Save Hotel Jobs Act will provide new grants and tax credits to help pay hotel employees bring back laid off workers and ensure...

WASHINGTON Today the Small Business Administration SBA announced that the 28 6 billion program aimed at helping restaurants impacted by the pandemic will begin accepting applications for grant funding beginning on Monday May 3 at 6 a m HT 12 noon E...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i and U S Representative Mark Pocan D Wis reintroduced the Debt Free College Act legislation that will reverse the growing student debt crisis in the United States The bill restores a path to aff...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i and Lisa Murkowski R Alaska reintroduced legislation to extend two key statutory deadlines for the 2020 Census The bipartisan bill will set the deadline for the apportionment data to April 30 2...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today announced that the U S Department of Energy DOE has selected Honolulu and Kauai as part of the agency s Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project ETIPP The DOE will provide federal assis...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today introduced new legislation to expand federal paid leave to include 12 weeks of family and medical leave The current public health crisis has shown us why it s so important to have strong paid leave p...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today reintroduced legislation to allow doctors at the U S Department of Veterans Affairs VA to prescribe medical marijuana to veterans in the 36 states that have established medical marijuana programs ...