WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i led a group of senators in demanding answers on Acting Comptroller Brian Brooks s intention to investigate some of the country s largest banks after several of them ruled out financial support for n...

WASHINGTON The Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA today announced that Hawai i County is set to receive 2 2 million in new federal disaster relief funding based on damage to Ahalanui Park from lava flows during the 2018 Kilauea eruptions The new...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i released the following statement on the U S Supreme Court nomination We are just weeks away from Election Day but Republicans are rushing to confirm a justice to the Supreme Court before the ...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i along with U S Representatives Jackie Speier D Calif and Jan Schakowsky D Ill today slammed Facebook for its failure to protect its users from widespread misinformation on its platform The lawmakers ...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i and Jeff Merkley D Ore introduced the Family Crisis Cash Assistance Act The legislation will create a new permanent program to help families struggling through a natural disaster or economic cri...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i released the following statement on the change in management at the Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home in Hilo Earlier this month as the COVID 19 outbreak worsened at the veterans home Schatz called for im...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i is renewing his call to Hawai i Governor David Ige to take additional steps to protect Hawai i residents living in long term care facilities Schatz first urged the Governor to step up efforts to protect n...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i Michael Bennet D Colo and Amy Klobuchar D Minn introduced new legislation aimed at rescuing the struggling local news industry Local news organizations play a vital role in American democracy ...

WASHINGTON With schools in Hawai i set to reopen for in person instruction U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today urged Hawai i Department of Education Superintendent Christina Kishimoto the State Board of Education and the Hawai i Association of...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today took to the Senate floor to call on Senate Republicans to honor U S Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg s dying wish that she not be replaced until a new president is installed in...