The leaders of India and the United States vowed Tuesday to ratify the Paris climate accord this year pledged to nail down terms for limiting a potent greenhouse gas used as a refrigerant in air conditioners and set a one year deadline for concluding a d...

HONOLULU U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i and Lisa Murkowski R Alaska members of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs introduced the Filipino Veterans Fairness Act of 2016 This legislation would e...

WASHINGTON Senate appropriators approved a bipartisan spending deal today that would fund 55 million in federal funding for clean energy technology and implementation projects including ones in Hawai i U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i a member of...

WASHINGTON Today the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a bipartisan defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2017 U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee worked to include 12 million in the bill...

WASHINGTON Today the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a bipartisan defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2017 U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee helped secure 222 million for the Army s...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i introduced the Fossil Aid is Inefficient and Regressive FAIR Energy Policy Act legislation that would balance tax preferences for the clean energy and fossil fuel industries If we are...

Washington D C Today the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee passed the OPEN Government Data Act Senators Ben Sasse R NE and Brian Schatz D HI have led the bipartisan effort to require public data to be accessible at Data ...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i ranking member of the Senate Communications Technology Innovation and the Internet Subcommittee called for the timely transition of oversight of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority IANA to ...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i called for immediate action from the Department of the Interior to stop the spread of Rapid Ohia Death In a letter to Interior Department Secretary Sally Jewell Schatz called for additional person...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i joined the Polynesian Voyaging Society the Hawai i State Society the Office of Hawaiian Affairs members of the Hawai i congressional delegation and community leaders from Hawai i and Washington ...