Press Releases

(Washington, DC) – Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) announced today his U.S. House Appropriations Committee’s approval of two more of twelve total bills to fund the federal government for upcoming Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 (beginning October 1, 2021), these targeting agriculture and conservation. The first, the FY 2022 Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations bill, proposes to… Read more »

(Washington, DC) – Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) today announced approval by his House Committee on Appropriations of the first of twelve measures to fund the federal government in Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 (beginning October 1, 2021). The FY 2022 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill funds various government programs to assist the country continue its path to recovery… Read more »

(Washington, DC) – Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) announced full House passage today of the INVEST in America Act, calling for a $715 billion five-year federal government investment in our nation’s surface transportation and water infrastructure.  “Our country has simply not kept up with the investments in our country’s roads, bridges, transit and water systems that are essential to… Read more »

(Honolulu, HI) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) and U.S. Congressman Kaialiʻi Kahele (HI-02) today announced that 12 Native Hawaiian programs based In Hawai’i have been awarded grants totaling $1,181,486 to help preserve the indigenous history, heritage and culture of Hawaiʻi.   The grants are administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (Institute), an… Read more »

(Honolulu, HI) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) today announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded the University of Hawai‘i $210 million to create and fund a new Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (CIMAR). According to NOAA, a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce charged with understanding and protecting… Read more »

Representative Ed Case (D-Hawaii), Representative Steve Womack (R-Ark.) and Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to restore access to a range of federal benefits for citizens of the Freely Associated States of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau who reside in the United… Read more »

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.7 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, to strengthen, expand, and scale its work supporting entrepreneurship and job creation. This EDA… Read more »

The U.S. House has once again passed his National Forest study measure that calls on the United States Forest Service (USFS) to engage communities in the State of Hawai’i in a study to identify suitable parcels to be incorporated into a National Forest Read more »

The release of $97,587,634 million today from the U.S. Department of Education to several schools of higher education throughout the State of Hawai‘i. The funding is part of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, Congress’ third major COVID-19 emergency assistance package enacted in March 2021. Read more »

First introduced by Case and fellow colleagues last Congress, the BLUE Pacific Act would establish a comprehensive, long-term U.S. strategy across the Pacific Islands region. Read more »