WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i led a group of 19 senators in calling on the Census Bureau to provide more details on how they plan to use data from the 2020 Census to apportion congressional representation This comes after multi...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i announced that Hawai i will receive 26 992 923 in new federal funding to support grants under the Native Hawaiian Education Program NHEP This federal funding secured by Senator Schatz through his ...

HONOLULU The Federal Emergency Management Agency today announced it has approved an additional 53 368 466 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 The new...

HONOLULU As COVID 19 cases and deaths continue to rise at the Yukio Okutsu Veterans State Home in Hilo U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i called for direct federal assistance with the outbreak We need to contain this outbreak i...

HONOLULU U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today released the following statement on the COVID 19 outbreak at the Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home in Hilo In May Schatz called on Governor David Ige to step up efforts to prevent such outbreaks at nu...

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 ...