The Defense Department will permanently shut down the Navy s massive fuel tank facility in Hawaii that leaked petroleum into Pearl Harbor s tap water and will remove all the fuel the Pentagon said Monday Pentagon press secretary John Kirby sai...

Hawaiʻi s congressional delegation and local leaders praised the Defense Department s decision Monday to permanently shut down the Navy Red Hill fuel tank facility that leaked petroleum into Pearl Harbor s tap water Some officials and activists voiced cau...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today released the following statement on the Department of Defense s decision to permanently shut down the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility on Oahu There will be challenges ahead but make ...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i released the following statement in response to the president s annual State of the Union address Tonight we heard the president reflect on the significant progress we have made in just one ye...

HONOLULU U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today released the following statement on President Joe Biden s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U S Supreme Court Judge Jackson has the legal expertise record of fairness and ...

HONOLULU Today U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i and Mazie K Hirono D Hawai i released the following statement on President Joe Biden s appointment of Chris Kanazawa to serve as the U S Department of Agriculture s USDA Rural Development Stat...

HONOLULU U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee released the following statement on Russia s invasion of Ukraine Russia s unprovoked attack against Ukraine s national sovereignty and independ...

HONOLULU The U S Senate last week unanimously passed the John Lewis National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Endowment Revitalization Act Authored by U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i and Bill Cassidy M D R La the ...

Across America justice is not being served because of long standing laws and rulings that weakened tribal courts If a Native woman in Indian Country is sexually assaulted by a non Indian perpetrator tribal courts are unable to prosecute the crime The l...

The U S Senate on Thursday passed a short term funding bill that includes a provision that pushes the Department of Defense to abide by a state emergency order to drain the tanks at the Navy s underground Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility and provides ...