Hawaii s public schools will soon be getting more than 58 million in federal funding U S Sen Brian Schatz said Thursday The money is aimed at helping improve education for students in low income communities going toward new technology teac...

WASHINGTON U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i and John Cornyn R Texas today introduced bipartisan legislation to fund free confidential support services to incarcerated survivors of sexual abuse and harassment Many correctional facilities are relu...

WASHINGTON Last night the U S Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution authored by U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i and Roger Wicker R Miss designating September 18 24 as Telehealth Awareness Week The resolution recognized that teleh...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense today released the following statement after the Department of Defense announced it had named Rear Admiral John Wade to serve as commander of ...

U S Sens Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz both D Hawaii joined four Senate colleagues Friday in urging the Department of Defense to allow people with human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis B virus to enlist and serve in the military as long as their c...

The U S Department of Defense has sped up its timeline for draining the Navy s underground Red Hill fuel tanks by about five months and now expects that the work can be completed by July 2024 The projection is part of the military s supplementa...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today released the following statement on the Department of Defense s DoD updated plan to defuel and shut down the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility Shutting down Red Hill cannot be delayed...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today announced that the Hawai i Department of Health will receive more than 1 million in new federal funding from the U S Department of Health and Human Services HHS for preventive and community healt...

The Hawaii Department of Health is set to receive more than 1 million for measures related to preventative care and community health congressional officials announced Wednesday The new federal funding comes from the United States Department of...

When the largest climate bill in U S history passed the Senate this month Sen Brian Schatz D Hawaii choked back tears This is a planetary emergency and this is the first time the federal government has taken acti...