Press Releases

(Washington, DC) – Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) has announced approval by his U.S. House Committee on Appropriations of another of the twelve bills that will collectively fund the federal government for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 (commencing October 1, 2022). The FY 2023 Homeland Security Appropriations bill proposes to fund $85.67 billion to invest in smart, effective border security, meet… Read more »

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) released this statement on the United States Supreme Court decision today in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, effectively overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established the constitutional right to abortion:  “The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling striking down Roe v. Wade is tragic on so… Read more »

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) today announced that his U.S. House Committee on Appropriations has approved another funding measure among the twelve bills that will collectively fund the federal government for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 (commencing October 1, 2022). This bill would provide $27.2 billion for the FY 2023 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food… Read more »

(Washington, DC) – Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) has announced approval by his U.S. House Committee on Appropriations of another key measure for Hawai‘i that is among the twelve bills to collectively fund the federal government for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 (commencing October 1, 2022). The FY 2023 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations bill proposes to… Read more »

(Washington, DC) – Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) has announced approval by his U.S. House Committee on Appropriations today of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Defense funding bill, the first of twelve bills that will collectively fund the federal government for FY 2023 (commencing October 1, 2022). The FY 2023 Defense Appropriations bill proposes to fund $762 billion for federal agencies and… Read more »

(Washington, DC) – Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) announced that his U.S. House Committee on Appropriations is advancing two bills that would provide an additional $1.1 billion to respond to the Red Hill crisis. These two bills are part of the twelve bills that will collectively fund the federal government for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023, which commences on October 1, 2022. “As a member of the… Read more »

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) today announced that the U.S. House has passed H.R. 2773, the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA), which includes mandatory federal funding of $1.3 billion annually to states, including $60 million to Hawai’i, to assist in managing wildlife species in greatest need of protection. “The act will direct an estimated $60… Read more »

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) today announced that the U.S. House has passed the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2022, which includes his requests to pursue potential federal projects to address the impacts of climate change and sea level rise on Waikīkī Beach, provide $20 million to fund water and wastewater infrastructure projects for the… Read more »

(Honolulu, HI) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) today praised the recent decision by U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro to name a ship after Telesforo De La Cruz Trinidad, a Filipino American Fireman 2nd class who died after he rescued shipmates injured in an explosion onboard their Navy cruiser in 1915. In a May 2021 letter to then Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas… Read more »

(Honolulu, HI) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) today announced that more than $14 million in federal assistance from the U.S. Department of the Interior will go to conservation programs in  the State of Hawaiʻi as a priority distribution from the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Package (BIP) enacted last year.  “The funding will assist the… Read more »