WASHINGTON U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i and Bill Nelson D Fla today sent a letter signed by 27 Senate colleagues to House Speaker Paul Ryan R Wis urging him to bring the 1 1 billion Zika funding legislation passed by the Senate to the Hous...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee announced that the State of Hawai i will receive 625 477 in grant funding to support the Hawai i Emergency Management Agency HI EMA in its mission...

HONOLULU U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i issued the following statement in recognition of Labor Day On Labor Day we honor the work and sacrifice of the labor movement in our country We thank labor unions as champions for the minimum w...

HONOLULU U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee announced today that all displaced Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company HC S employees are now eligible to receive federal assistance from the U S Departm...

WASHINGTON In response to a request from Senator Brian Schatz D HI the U S Department of the Interior announced today 497 000 in additional federal funding to combat a tree killing fungus that causes Rapid Ohia Death ROD a disease that threatens t...

HONOLULU Today President Barack Obama announced the expansion of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument PMNM by more than 442 000 square miles U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i who formally proposed the PMNM expansion in a letter to the p...

HONOLULU U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawaii issued the following statement after attending the memorial service for former U S Representative Mark Takai Today we say a painful goodbye to my friend and son of Hawaii Mark Takai In life M...

Aug 10 Hillary Clinton is surging not only in national polls but also in key swing states and that is good news for a bloc of Senate Democrats who hope to put climate change back on the front burner and fill a vacuum of leadership triggered by the depar...

THIS SUMMER for the first time in 22 years 12 000 prison inmates can use federal funding to take college courses a change that could ease their transition to civilian life and reduce the chances they will commit crimes again upon release A two page bil...

HONOLULU Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i and Senate Democrats released a new letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan urging the Republican leaders to immediately call Congress back into session to pass em...