HONOLULU – U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) and Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawai‘i) and U.S. Representatives Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawai‘i) and Ed Case (D-Hawai‘i) today called on Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Jovita Carranza to fix the unfair loan distribution process that favors mainland big banks over Hawai‘i’s lenders and small… Read more »
Chair Velázquez, Ranking Member Chabot and members of the Small Business Committee:
As a former Committee member, I’m grateful to be able to share the profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Hawai’i small businesses.
Small businesses are the lifeblood of my state. Hawai‘i has 132,640 small businesses; that’s about 1 business for every 11 people. They are also smaller than… Read more »
(Honolulu, HI) – Senator Brian Schatz (HI) and Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) announced today new options from the IRS for Americans eligible for direct payments under the CARES Act to speed up receipt of stimulus payments and check status.
The tools, available today, allows eligible Americans, including non-filers to register and provide electronic direct deposit information which… Read more »
(Honolulu, HI) – Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) issued this statement today on U.S. House passage of H.R. 748, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act:
"The House's expedited passage today of the CARES Act is a critical step forward in delivering critical assistance to the American people in this time of public health and economic crisis,” said Case.
“The CARES Act… Read more »
(Honolulu, HI) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) today asked Hawai‘i small businesses for help in advancing their eligibility for federal economic injury assistance as authorized by recent emergency legislation passed by Congress.
“Our nation’s small businesses have been especially hard hit by our COVID-19 crisis, “said Case.
“This is particularly true in our Hawai‘i because… Read more »
Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) has introduced three bills in Congress to reform the century-old Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (commonly referred to as the “Jones Act”), which is widely credited with artificially inflating the cost of shipping goods to Hawai‘i.
The Jones Act mandates that all cargo shipping between U.S. ports occur exclusively on U.S., not foreign, flagged vessels.… Read more »
Madam Speaker, today I introduce three bills to end a century of monopolistic closed market domestic cargo shipping to and from my isolated home state of Hawai‘i as well as the other island and separated jurisdictions of our country not part of the continental United States. In doing so, we will break the stranglehold on the peoples and economies of these exposed communities and their… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Ed Case (HI-01), a member of the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations responsible for all federal discretionary spending, today voted with a majority of his colleagues to pass two appropriations measures funding $1.4 trillion in federal operations for the current fiscal year.
If approved by the Senate and signed into law by President Donald Trump as expected, the… Read more »
Thank you, Chair Engel, Ranking Member McCaul, Chair Sherman, Aloha! Thank you for the opportunity to testify today in support of this Committee's and our Congress' legislative initiatives focused on the Pacific Islands, a critical region for my Hawaii and our country.
The Pacific Islands and their exclusive economic zones encompass a vast area of the Pacific Ocean, larger than the land… Read more »
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member and members of the Committee.
As a proud former member of the House Committee on Agriculture from 2003 to 2006, I appreciate your allowing me to share my thoughts on issues important to our agricultural community both nationally and in my home state of Hawai‘i. It was just as true then as it is today that American agriculture doesn’t much care… Read more »
