Congress appears poised to let millions of Medicare recipients continue to video chat with their doctors after the pandemic is over A set of telemedicine policies the Trump administration adopted during lockdowns is emerging as an unexpect...

WASHINGTON U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i and Sherrod Brown D Ohio introduced legislation to expand services for community college students and help them graduate The Community College Student Success Act would fund programs at community colle...

WASHINGTON U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i Roger Wicker R Miss Amy Klobuchar D Minn Susan Collins R Maine and Jerry Moran R Kan asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC and the Transportation Security Administration TSA ...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs introduced the Native American Housing Assistance and Self Determination Reauthorization This bipartisan legislation builds on successful Native America...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i announced that the five Native Hawaiian Health Care Systems NHHCS and Papa Ola Lokahi which coordinates health care programs and services for Native Hawaiians will receive a total of 18 2 milli...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i announced that Hawai i airports will receive more than 144 million in new federal funding from the American Rescue Plan which was signed into law in March The new funding will help su...

Hawaii U S Sen Brian Schatz on Thursday reintroduced legislation that would accelerate the federal Bureau of Prisons approval process for compassionate release during a public health emergency Schatz s Emergency GRACE Act also would provide ...

WASHINGTON Today U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i announced that the John A Burns School of Medicine JABSOM at the University of Hawai i has been awarded 320 535 for its telehealth pilot project JABSOM s telehealth project connects patients wi...

WASHINGTON After the COVID 19 pandemic impacted prisons across the country infecting hundreds of thousands of people and causing thousands of deaths U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today reintroduced legislation that would accelerate the Bureau o...

WASHINGTON U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i John Thune R S D Raphael Warnock D Ga and John Kennedy R La today introduced the Unsubscribe Act The bipartisan bill would require companies to be more transparent about their subscription based bu...