(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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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.… 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… 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… 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… Read more »
