(Honolulu, HI) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) today strongly criticized the President’s announcement of a planned diversion of $3.6 billion in already appropriated funds for high-priority military projects to build a border wall not authorized or funded by Congress.
Case was informed today that among the projects affected are two in Hawai’i considered by the Department… Read more »
(Honolulu, HI) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) today announced that he will introduce a measure in the U.S. House of Representatives to impose strict regulations on commercial tour operations to include helicopters and small planes.
Case’s proposed “Safe and Quiet Skies Act” would direct the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has virtually exclusive… Read more »
(Honolulu, HI) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) today announced the first-ever formation of the Congressional Pacific Islands Caucus, which he will co-chair along with three high-ranking U.S. House colleagues.
“I have been convinced for some time that our country’s and world’s future are in the Indo-Pacific, and the islands of the Pacific are a key yet… Read more »
(Honolulu, HI) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) today joined liked-minded colleagues in unveiling a comprehensive plan to restore fiscal responsibility to our federal budget.
Case, a member of the Blue Dog Democrat Coalition and Co-Chair, along with colleague Congressman Ben McAdams of Utah of the Coalition’s Task Force on Fiscal Responsibility and Government… Read more »
(Honolulu, HI) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) has gained full approval from the U.S. House for his floor amendment to the national intelligence authorization act to require our intelligence agencies to review and report back to Congress on whether they are adequately protecting the civil liberties of American citizens in countering foreign espionage efforts.
His… Read more »
(Honolulu, HI) – The full U.S. House has approved three floor amendments by U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) in its passage today of H.R. 2500, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020.
The NDAA is the federal government’s annual approval of overall defense spending. This year’s NDAA as approved by the House authorizes a total of $733 billion… Read more »
(Honolulu, HI) - U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) announced that today the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 3351, the Financial Services & General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2020. The bill is the tenth of twelve appropriations bills reported to the full House by the Committee on Appropriations, on which Case serves, and funding a total of… Read more »
(Honolulu, HI) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) today announced the following grant awards to the state of Hawai‘i from the U.S Department of Transportation. “These awards will assist with the on-going work to upgrade our airports in Hawai‘i ,” said Case. “These grants will help to facilitate those improvements – with one award to go directly to the Daniel K. Inouye… Read more »
(Honolulu, HI) - U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) announced that today the U.S. House of Representatives has passed H.R. 3055, the second of four measures that the House Committee on Appropriations recommended to fund over $383 billion of discretionary federal government agencies, programs and services for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 commencing October 1st of this year.
Case is… Read more »
(Honolulu, HI) - U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) announced that today the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2740, the first upcoming Fiscal Year 2020 appropriations bill including close to $1 trillion in overall federal spending and millions in federal funding for Hawai’i-specific programs.
The full House approved the overall recommendations of its Committee on… Read more »
