WASHINGTON U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i and Ben Ray Luján D N M today reintroduced the State Public Option Act bicameral legislation to create a Medicaid based public health insurance option to strengthen the Affordable Care Act by providing...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i reintroduced the Beyond the Box for Higher Education Act which encourages colleges and universities to remove criminal and juvenile justice questions from their admissions applications by providing...

WASHINGTON Two bills authored by U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i to support Native Hawaiian language schools and programs unanimously passed the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs where Schatz serves as Chairman Our bipartisan bills w...

WASHINGTON U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i Thom Tillis R N C John Cornyn R Texas and Richard Blumenthal D Conn today introduced new legislation to fight cybercrime and help keep Americans safe from online scams The bipartisan Better Cybercr...

WASHINGTON As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today voted to advance legislation to repeal the 1991 and 2002 authorizations for the use of military force AUMFs Repealing the outdated ...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation released the following statement on a new order issued by the Biden Administration that will extend the federal evic...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i spoke on the Senate floor today to celebrate Carissa Moore s Olympic Gold Medal win in surfing The senator also paid tribute to Duke Kahanamoku and his work to bring the sport of surfing to the Olympic Ga...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today introduced new legislation to improve road safety standards and make streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists For too long transportation policy has been focused on how we can fit more...

WASHINGTON The U S Senate unanimously passed the Veterans Disability Compensation Cost of Living Adjustment Act bipartisan legislation authored by U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i that would increase the rates of compensation for veterans with se...

HONOLULU Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i announced that Hawai i will receive more than 3 million in new federal funding from the American Rescue Plan to help detect and prevent potential COVID 19 outbreaks among the state s most vulnerable ...