U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i led a group of 10senators in introducing a resolution to support the designation of April 2022 as Preserving Local News Month The resolution recognizes local news as a public good that serves an essential f...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today led a group of ten senators in introducing a resolution to support the designation of April 2022 as Preserving and Protecting Local News Month The resolution recognizes local news as a public good ...

Congressional earmarks are back and for Hawaii that means hundreds of millions of dollars in new federal spending In March President Joe Biden signed a 1 5 trillion omnibus spending bill that will fund the government through September Buried...

Sen Brian Schatz D Hawaii on Tuesday unexpectedly pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland on clemency for Leonard Peltier the Native American rights activist who has been in prison for 46 years without any evidence that he committed a crime ...

The U S Department of Justice has withdrawn its lawsuit filed in federal and state courts in February contesting the state s emergency order instructing the Navy to drain its Red Hill fuel tanks The order issued by the state Department of Healt...

HONOLULU U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today released the following statement on the Department of Defense s decision to withdraw its lawsuit challenging the State of Hawaiʻi s emergency public health order on the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facil...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today voted to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve as an associate justice on the U S Supreme Court Judge Jackson who was confirmed by a vote of 53 47 becomes the first Black woman to serve on...

U S Sen Brian Schatz D Hawaii met with U S Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Wednesday to discuss Brown s record and judicial philosophy Without revealing details of their conversation Schatz declared Jackson exceptionally qu...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today met with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson President Joe Biden s nominee to serve as associate justice on the U S Supreme Court The two met in Senator Schatz s office on Capitol Hill to discuss her reco...

U S Sens Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz D Hawaii joined colleagues in both chambers in calling on President Joe Biden to extend the pandemic based pause on federally held student loan payments until the end of the year and to consider outright student d...