HONOLULU Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i announced that the state of Hawai i will receive 4 001 647 in new federal funding to help respond to the growing crisis of methamphetamine misuse as well as opioid misuse This is the first year tha...

For Hawaii another day with more than 300 COVID 19 cases So what should we do and where did we go wrong First our obsession with the border at the airport distracted us from building the public health awareness and infrastructure that wil...

HONOLULU The Federal Emergency Management Agency today announced it has approved a 193 933 095 grant to Hawai i to provide those unemployed due to COVID 19 with an additional 300 per week on top of their regular unemployment benefit While t...

WASHINGTON U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i and Lisa Murkowski R Alaska and U S Representatives Abigail Spanberger D Va and Ann Wagner R Mo this week called for Defense Secretary Mark Esper to provide updates on how the Defense Department D...

HONOLULU The U S Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD today announced that Hawai i County will receive 30 6 million in new federal disaster relief funding The 23 7 million in Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery funding ...

HONOLULU U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today announced that the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children received 10 771 601 in new federal COVID 19 relief funding from the U S Department of Health and Human Services HHS Kapiolani Medi...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i led a group of 15 senators in urging Federal Communications Commission FCC Chair Ajit Pai to increase funding for and improve the operations of the Rural Health Care RHC program which helps expand acc...

HONOLULU Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i announced that Hawai i will receive 9 596 669 in new federal funding to purchase new buses for Kauai Maui and Hawai i Island Our communities depend on public transportation t...

WASHINGTON U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i and Lisa Murkowski R Alaska today led a group of 48 bipartisan senators in calling for the extension of the statutory deadlines for the delivery of apportionment data and redistricting files following t...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today took to the Senate floor to call for federal relief funding to support state and county governments during the COVID 19 pandemic In his remarks on the Senate floor Schatz slammed a Repu...