WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i released the following statement on the arrest of journalist Maria Ressa in the Philippines I am deeply concerned by reports that journalist Maria Ressa has been arrested on trumped up charges in th...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee voted to pass public lands legislation that would bring more federal funding to Hawai i and protect historic sites in the state The package of bills pr...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i and Congressman Gerry Connolly D Va reintroduced the Federal Adjustment of Income Rates FAIR Act a bill that would provide federal employees with a 3 6 percent pay increase in 2020 Schatz and Co...

WASHINGTON U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i and John Thune R S D today reintroduced the Veterans Disability Compensation Automatic Cost of Living Adjustment COLA Act This bipartisan legislation would require the federal government to provide ...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i introduced the Census Improving Data and Enhanced Accuracy Census IDEA Act legislation that would protect the accuracy of the 2020 census and ensure any proposed changes to the count are properly...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i co chair of the Senate Climate Action Task Force and a member of the Senate Banking Committee led a group of eight senators in calling on investment firms to help mitigate climate change by using t...

WASHINGTON Today 13 senators including U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i Patty Murray D Wash Jack Reed D R I Kamala Harris D Calif Richard Blumenthal D Conn Elizabeth Warren D Mass Bernie Sanders I Vt Jeff Merkley D Ore Edward Markey ...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i led a group of eight senators in calling on the three credit reporting agencies Equifax Experian and TransUnion to protect federal employees and contractors from any damage the Trump shutdown ...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i released the following statement in response to the agreement reached to end the Trump shutdown and reopen the government I want to express my sympathy and my solidarity with all of the workers i...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i went to the Senate floor to call for an end to the Trump shutdown In his remarks Schatz highlighted the negative impacts of the shutdown including the harm to Hawai i s federal workers the econo...