Statement of Representative Ed Case House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Oversight Hearing: Role of Electric Infrastructure in the Catastrophic Maui Fire September 28, 2023 Chair Griffith, Ranking Member Castor and Members of the Subcommittee, good morning and aloha. From all of the people of Hawai‘i, mahalo for your expressions of concern and for you... Read More »
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and U.S. Representatives Ed Case (HI-01) and Jill Tokuda (HI-02) today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded $42,585,500 in grants to nine organizations to plant and maintain trees, combat extreme heat, and improve access to green space in communities throughout the state. The largest awar... Read More »
(Honolulu, HI) – U.S. Representative Ed Case (Hawai‘i -1st), who was scheduled to join a U.S. House of Representatives member delegation to Maui today led by Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy (California-20th), tested positive for COVID-19 this morning and will not attend. The delegation, which includes U.S. Rep. Dave Joyce (Ohio-14th), Chair of the House Appropriations S... Read More »
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) today urged Hawai‘i veterans and their survivors who may be eligible for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care benefits under the historic PACT Act of August 2022, and who have not yet applied for PACT Act benefits, to file or at least complete and submit an intent to file before Wednesday, August 9th to preserve eligibility for retroac... Read More »
(Washington, DC) – Congressman Ed Case’s (HI-01) today announced the introduction of a bill in the U.S. House to end what he called in remarks in the Congressional Record “the exclusionary and discriminatory practices of private shipping services to Hawai‘i and the other non-contiguous parts of our country.” Case said Hawai‘i, located almost 2,500 miles off the West Coast, and like other non-48 st... Read More »
(Washington, DC) -- U.S. Congressman Ed Case on Friday joined the Hawai‘i Army National Guard’s lead 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (29th IBCT) in the middle of a month-long advanced combat training exercise at the U.S. Army’s Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) in Fort Johnson, Louisiana. The 29th IBCT is the lead component in the exercise and incorporates Guard units from 24 states. It is ... Read More »
(Washington, DC) – Congressman Ed Case’s (HI-01) U.S. House Committee on Appropriations today passed two key measures funding federal programs addressing transportation, housing, urban development, environmental protection, public lands, natural resources, indigenous peoples and other areas. The measures propose funding for the upcoming Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 (commencing October 1, 2023). The Trans... Read More »
Washington, DC) – Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) today described the U.S. House-passed version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) as fatally flawed on key national issues but positive on his priorities of strengthening America’s national defense in the Indo-Pacific and improving the Department of Defense’s (DoD) relationship with the local community. The $886 billi... Read More »
(Washington, DC) – Congressman Ed Case’s (HI-01) U.S. House Committee on Appropriations this week approved annual federal funding for the U.S. Department of State and other foreign operations focusing on international diplomacy and development including continued funding for the East-West Center in Honolulu. His Committee also approved another funding measure for the U.S. Small Business Administra... Read More »
I am truly disappointed that an often promising and optimistic bill has succumbed to fatal flaws driven by partisan posturing and representing outdated and frankly dangerous positions undermining our indispensable, unavoidable world leadership role. The increases in funding and engagement in the Indo-Pacific generally and the Pacific Islands specifically deserve broad support. However, these are c... Read More »
(Washington, DC) -- Congressman Ed Case (D-HI), joined by colleagues including Co-Chairs of the Congressional Pacific Islands Caucus Congressman Ami Bera (D-CA), Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA), and Congresswoman Amua Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-AS), have re-introduced their Boosting Long-term U.S. Engagement in the Pacific, or BLUE Pacific, Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. The BLUE Pacifi... Read More »
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) today introduced two measures calling for moratoria on the mining of our world’s deep seabed unless and until its consequences are fully understood and an appropriate protective regulatory regime is established. “Our deep oceans and seabed are the last unexplored regions of our world, yet what we do know of them is that they are among our most in... Read More »
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) was given the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation’s prestigious 2023 Leadership Award during a recent 600-person gala in Washington, DC which wrapped up the annual Capitol Hill Ocean Week bringing together advocates for the world’s oceans. The Foundation honors one or two political leaders per year who demonstrate a commitment to ... Read More »
(Washington, DC) – Congressman Ed Case’s (HI-01) U.S. House Committee on Appropriations today approved two key measures – one funding national defense programs and one funding energy and water programs – that are among twelve bills to collectively fund the federal government for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 (commencing October 1, 2023). The FY 2024 Defense Appropriations bill proposes to spend $826.4 bil... Read More »
(Washington, DC) – Congressman Ed Case’s (HI-01) U.S. House Committee on Appropriations today approved a key measure funding federal homeland security programs nationally and in Hawai‘i for the upcoming Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 (commencing October 1, 2023). The FY 2024 Homeland Security bill, one of twelve total bills funding the federal government annually, proposes to spend $91.5 billion for all pr... Read More »
