WASHINGTON Today U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i Mike Lee R Utah and Dick Durbin D Ill introduced the Restoring Education and Learning REAL Act a bill that would restore Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated individuals The bipartisan l...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i introduced the College Equity Act a bill that would give colleges and universities funding to address disparities in higher education recruitment admissions and support There are schools where veterans ...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i Dick Durbin D Ill Dianne Feinstein D Calif and Kirsten Gillibrand D N Y introduced a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College system and restore democracy by allowing the dir...

WASHINGTON Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer D N Y today established a new Special Committee on the Climate Crisis The committee comprised of ten Democratic senators will be tasked with investigating holding hearings and issuing findings on th...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee announced that the U S Department of Health and Human Services will award 14 community health centers in Hawai i federal funding totaling 28 750 36...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i led a group of 15 senators in calling on the Department of Justice DOJ to follow the law and protect the confidentiality of responses collected through the census The letter to Attorney General William ...

Brian Schatz is no household name But he s already positioning himself as an influential figure in the 2020 presidential race someone who can unite the party around a shared agenda even if the primary inevitably turns ugly Schatz the senior ...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i and Roy Blunt R Mo members of the Senate Committee on Commerce Science Transportation introduced the Commercial Facial Recognition Privacy Act of 2019 The bipartisan legislation would streng...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i and U S Representative Paul Tonko D N Y introduced new legislation today that would protect public scientific research and reports from the influence of political and special interests a longstanding c...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senators Patrick Leahy D Vt Vice Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee Dick Durbin D Ill Vice Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense and Brian Schatz D Hawaii Ranking Member on the Senate Ap...