HONOLULU Last night the bipartisan Restoring Resilient Reefs Act which wasauthored by U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i and Mazie K Hirono D Hawai i passed the Senate This bill directs federal funding and technical assistance to states territorie...

WASHINGTON Last night the U S Senate passed an appropriations deal which includes a provision authored by U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i that will extend the deadline for a 250 million funding grant for the Honolulu Rail Transit project The f...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i Cory Gardner R Colo Rob Portman R Ohio Gary Peters D Mich and Amy Klobuchar D Minn announced that their Artificial Intelligence AI in Government Act was included as part of the must pass g...

WASHINGTON Today the Restoring Education and Learning REAL Act bipartisan legislation authored by U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i that will restore Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated individuals was included in the annual omnibus spending...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i Chair of the Special Committee on the Climate Crisis today commended the inclusion of legislation to phase down hydrofluorocarbons HFCs in the annual spending deal Commonly used in refrigerators and ai...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i announced that Hawai i will receive at least 1 7 billion in estimated funding from a new 900 billion COVID 19 relief package The bipartisan deal the second largest emergency relief package in A...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i a member of the Senate Banking Committee and Chair of the Special Committee on the Climate Crisis today released the following statement on the Federal Reserve s announcement that it has joined the Networ...

WASHINGTON U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i and Chris Van Hollen D Md introduced the Crisis Housing Act legislation that would establish a new housing assistance program The new program would be automatically triggered and help ensure that fami...

WASHINGTON The U S Senate today passed the National Defense Authorization Act NDAA including key reforms to the Department of Defense s 1033 program which authorizes the federal transfer of military equipment to state and local law enforcement agenci...

WASHINGTON The U S Senate today passed the National Defense Authorization Act NDAA which includes the Reliable Emergency Alert Distribution Improvement READI Act The bipartisan legislation authored by U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i will ens...