(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 »
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Representative Ed Case (HI-01) today announced the re-introduction of his bill in the U.S. House to end what he called “the discriminatory and exclusionary shipping practices faced by residents and businesses in Hawai‘i, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands and other U.S. territories.” U.S. Representative James Moy... Read More »
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Representative Ed Case (HI-01), and U.S. Representative Jill Tokuda (HI-02) announced the re-introduction of their Hawai‘i Invasive Species Protection Act, a bill to require the U.S Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Inspection Service (APHIS), in cooperation with other federal departments and the State of Hawai‘i, to conduct visual, x-ray and canine inspections, as... Read More »
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Representatives Ed Case (D-HI-01)) and Steve Womack (R-AR-03) today announced the re-introduction of H.R. 222, their Sustainable Budget Act, a measure they also introduced in the 116th Congress (2019-2021), 117th Congress (2021-2023) and 118th Congress (2023-2025). They were joined in co-introduction by U.S. Representatives Scott Peters (D-CA-50) and Zach Nunn (R-IA-03). “B... Read More »
I rise today to reintroduce the Affordable Shipping for All Act, a bill to end discriminatory and exclusionary shipping practices faced by residents and businesses in the non-contiguous areas of our country, particularly Hawai‘i, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. This blatant discrimination and exclusion is illustrated by Hawai‘i,... Read More »
(WASHINGTON, DC) -- U.S. Representative Ed Case (Hawai’i-First) today commended President Biden’s first-ever proclamation formally honoring the Hui Panalāʻau and renaming the Pacific Remote Islands National Marine Monument as the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument. In his January 2, 2025 Proclamation (see fact sheet below), President Biden formally recognized and extended the nation... Read More »
(Washington, DC) -- U.S. Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) today joined his colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives in commencing the 119th Congress (2023-2025). Each Congress is for a two-year term, dating back to commencement of the 1st Congress in 1789. Case has represented Hawaii’s First Congressional District in the 118th (2023-2025), 117th (2021-2023) and 116th (2019-2021) Congresses, as w... Read More »
(Washington, DC) -- U.S. Representative Ed Case (Hawai’i-First District) today joined a ceremony at the White House at which President Biden awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously to Hawai’i native Private Bruno Raymond Abing Orig, U.S. Army. Private Orig was born in Hawai’i in 1930 to parents who immigrated from the Philippines and was raised in Damon Tract near Honolulu Airport. Following the e... Read More »
(Honolulu, HI) – Congressman Ed Case (First District - Hawai‘i) today issued the following statement on the passing of former President Jimmy Carter: “Faith, hope, service. These will always define President Jimmy Carter. Faith in God and humanity. Hope for our country and world and for each and all of us. Service as the purpose of life, each in our own best way. His was truly a life of consequenc... Read More »
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) voted today on the bipartisan continuing resolution drafted by his Appropriations Committee to keep government programs and services funded until March 14, 2025. The package also includes supplemental relief funds necessary to help Maui and other communities across the country recover from recent natural disasters. “Aside from high... Read More »
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to introduce two critically important pieces of legislation aimed at protecting our oceans and marine ecosystems from the potentially catastrophic consequences of deep-sea mining: the American Seabed Protection Act and the International Seabed Protection Act. These bills will place a moratorium on seabed mining until its full environmental, social and economic impacts are... Read More »
