WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today issued the following statement after the Senate voted to confirm Admiral Harry B Harris Jr to serve as the United States Ambassador to South Korea I have known Harry Harris for many years in his se...

WASHINGTON Today the U S Senate unanimously passed the Authenticating Local Emergencies and Real Threats ALERT Act legislation authored by U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i Kamala Harris D Calif and Cory Gardner R Colo The ALERT Act which ...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i announced that the U S Department of Labor has awarded 500 000 in grant funding to the Hawai i Department of Labor and Industrial Relations The Disaster Recovery National Dislocated Worker Grant ...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i released the following statement on President Donald Trump s approval of the State of Hawai i s request for individual assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA for Kauai and Oahu resi...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i released the following statement on the Supreme Court s ruling on Janus v AFSCME This is a huge blow to workers and their families across the country and for anyone fighting to make sure that public empl...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i released the following statement on the Supreme Court s decision to overturn Korematsu v United States the 1944 decision that ruled the World War II internment of Japanese Americans to be constitutional ...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court s decision to uphold President Donald Trump s Muslim ban What is legal is not always just A narrow ruling on whether or not the Presid...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i led a bicameral group of over 120 current and former members of Congress on an amicus brief to support a lawsuit filed by the State of New York to stop the addition of a divisive untested citizenship quest...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee announced that Child Family Service Kauai will receive 1 395 077 in federal funding for Head Start and Early Head Start programs that offer qualit...

WASHINGTON Today the Senate Appropriations Committee passed the Commerce Science and Justice Appropriations Bill for fiscal year 2019 U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i worked to include 1 million to preserve Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Mon...