(Washington, DC) -- U.S. Representative Ed Case (Hawai‘i-First District) this morning appeared on C-SPAN’s nationally-televised program, Washington Journal. The live half-hour show features a single member of Congress addressing questions from the host, followed by direct questions from the viewing audience across the country alternating among Republicans, Democrats and independents. Case covered ... Read More »
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge support for my Indigenous Diplomacy and Engagement Act to ensure that our foreign affairs fully encompass and incorporate the independent interconnectedness of our world's indigenous peoples. The estimated 476 million indigenous peoples spread across all parts of our world are bound together by a common heritage, common wisdom and common challenges that transcend ... Read More »
(Washington, DC) -- U.S. Representative Ed Case (Hawai‘i-First District) today reintroduced his measure to protect the world’s increasingly fragile coral reef ecosystems by restricting international imports of protected ornamental reef fish and coral species collected through destructive practices. “Our oceans, teeming with life and rich biodiversity, depend on the health of coral reefs, some of t... Read More »
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to invite my House colleagues to join Congressman Joe Neguse of Colorado and me in recognizing the critical importance of the native plants of our country by cosponsoring our resolution designating the month of April as Native Plant Month. Native plants are not just a vital part of our natural landscape; they are integral to the environmental health of our Nation. From su... Read More »
(Washington, DC) – U.S, Representative Ed Case (Hawai’i-First) today decried President Trump’s effort to abolish the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) as “one of the broadest and deepest and outright shortsighted and heartless of many attacks on the foundations of our society to date.” “Education, especially our collective centuries-old commitment to a free education for all, is one of the most... Read More »
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge support for my Saving Natural Ecosystems and Marine Organisms (NEMO) Act to protect the ornamental reef species living in the fragile and invaluable ecosystems of our world's endangered coral reefs. Our oceans, teeming with life and rich biodiversity, depend on the health of coral reefs, some of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on Earth. Nearly 25 percent ... Read More »
Mr. Speaker: I rise to focus attention on one of our most pressing crises: our rapidly deteriorating federal budget, crippled by unsustainable annual deficits and accelerating overall debt. While most prefer to deny or explain it away, we all recognize it, and we all must address it. Our federal budget operates on principles no different from those of a business or family budget. Revenues come fro... Read More »
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Representative Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) today asked Secretary of the Army Daniel P. Driscoll to explain the apparent deletion of Army websites recognizing the Nisei veterans of World War II, awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, and other Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander servicemembers. “Erasing history one website at a time is no different than th... Read More »
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Representative Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) issued the following statement after attending President Trump’s State of the Union address tonight to Congress: “This was my eleventh State of the Union address as a Member of Congress, seven by Republican and four by Democrat Presidents, and it was by far the most divisive, polarizing and destructive. “It could and should have... Read More »
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of my Hawaii Native Species Conservation and Recovery Act, a critical piece of legislation to protect and preserve the unique and irreplaceable native plant and animal species of our precious and endangered Hawaii. I am introducing this bill in conjunction with my Hawaii colleague, Senator Brian Schatz. Our Hawaii is one of the most biologically unique and dive... Read More »
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) has reintroduced two measures in the 119th Congress (2025-2027) calling for moratoria on the mining of our world’s deep seabed unless and until its potentially destructive consequences are fully understood and an appropriate international protective regulatory regime is established. “Our deep oceans and seabed are the last unexplored regions of o... Read More »
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (D-HI-01) and U.S. Congressman James Moylan (R-Guam) are leading re-introduction in Congress of three legislative proposals to reform the century-old Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (the “Jones Act”), which is widely recognized as creating domestic shipping monopolies that artificially inflate the cost of critical imported goods to the non-contiguous parts ... Read More »
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Representative Ed Case (D-HI-01), joined by several members of his Congressional Pacific Islands Caucus, have re-introduced an expanded version of their Boosting Long-term U.S. Engagement in the Pacific (BLUE Pacific) Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. “The lands and waters of the jurisdictions spread across Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia comprise an area larger... Read More »
Mr. Speaker: Today I again introduce three bills to end over a century of federally-imposed monopolistic closed market domestic cargo shipping to and from my isolated home state of Hawai‘i and the other island and separated jurisdictions of our country not part of the contiguous 48 United States. In doing so, we seek to break the stranglehold on the peoples and economies of our exposed communities... Read More »
(Washington, DC) -- U.S. Representative Ed Case (HI-01) today released the following statement after joining the Inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 47th President of the United States in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda: “I congratulate President Trump and Vice President Vance on taking the oath as President and Vice President of our great country. “Like all of our fellow Americans, we want what is be... Read More »
