WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i and U S Representative Mark Pocan D Wis reintroduced the Debt Free College Act legislation that will reverse the growing student debt crisis in the United States The bill restores a path to aff...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today announced that the U S Department of Energy DOE has selected Honolulu and Kauai as part of the agency s Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project ETIPP The DOE will provide federal assis...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i and Lisa Murkowski R Alaska reintroduced legislation to extend two key statutory deadlines for the 2020 Census The bipartisan bill will set the deadline for the apportionment data to April 30 2...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today reintroduced legislation to allow doctors at the U S Department of Veterans Affairs VA to prescribe medical marijuana to veterans in the 36 states that have established medical marijuana programs ...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today introduced new legislation to expand federal paid leave to include 12 weeks of family and medical leave The current public health crisis has shown us why it s so important to have strong paid leave p...

HONOLULU Tomorrow the 16 billion program aimed at helping live event businesses impacted by the pandemic will begin accepting applications for grant funding The new Small Business Administration SBA program known as the Shuttered Venue Operators Gr...

HONOLULU U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today announced that Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home in Hilo will receive at least 600 000 in estimated federal funding under the American Rescue Plan Act and December s COVID relief law This new funding ...

HONOLULU Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i announced that the Hawai i Department of Health will receive a total of 32 834 105 in new federal funding to support the distribution of the COVID 19 vaccine These dollars can be used for a broad ra...

HONOLULU U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today released the following statement on President Joe Biden s 2 trillion infrastructure plan We plan to make historic investments that will help us rebuild our essential infrastructure and cre...

HONOLULU U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today released a resource guide to help Hawai i families navigate the new tax benefits available under the American Rescue Plan Act including the expanded Child Tax Credit The newly expanded Chi...