National Security

Chairman Rogers, Ranking Member Smith and members of the Committee: Aloha, and thank you for the opportunity to testify today on the Fiscal Year 2024 NDAA. I’d like to highlight my home state of Hawai’i, which plays a central role in our National Defense Strategy. The NDS identifies the People’s Republic of China as our most consequential strategic competitor, a pacing challenge,… Read more »

(Washington, DC) – Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) announced that the full U.S. House has approved its version of the $839.3 billion Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that addresses his priorities related to the closure of Red Hill, strengthening America’s national defense in the Indo-Pacific and improving the Department of Defense’s (DoD) relationship with the… Read more »

Chairman Smith, Ranking Member Rodgers and Members of the Committee. Aloha, and thank you for the opportunity to focus on the national security challenges and opportunities that face us in my part of the world - the Indo-Pacific – and Hawaii’s continued critical role. Today I’d like to address three specific issues: the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility crisis; the Pacific Deterrence… Read more »

(Washington, DC) - Congressman Ed Case (HI-01), a member of the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations responsible for all federal discretionary spending, today endorsed the Biden Administration’s Fiscal Year 2023 budget proposal to allocate $1 billion more to address the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility water contamination crisis. “Full remediation, defueling and closure of Red Hill… Read more »

(Honolulu,HI) - U.S. Congressman Ed Case, a member of the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, responsible for all federal discretionary spending, voted on March 09, 2022, with a majority of his colleagues to pass a $1.5 trillion measure to fund the federal government for the current fiscal year (FY 2022), to include billions for America’s national security H.R. 2471, the FY 2022… Read more »

First and foremost, to the thousands of our ohana who have suffered harm, whose lives are upended, this should not have happened to you and we remain completely focused on you. Second, I thank my colleague, Congressman Kahele, for his full partnership throughout this crisis and for his leadership in introducing our legislation. I support our military. We must remain strong and… Read more »

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) announced that Congress has passed the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that makes changes to the policies and organization of the country’s defense agencies and provides guidance on how military funding can be spent. The Fiscal Year (FY) NDAA authorizes $768 billion in defense spending and includes key provisions… Read more »

The $768 billion annual defense funding measure passed by the House includes several historic policy changes for nation’s military Read more »

Chairman Smith, Ranking Member Rodgers and Members of the Committee. I appreciate the opportunity to discuss with you our national security challenged and opportunities in my backyard of the Indo-Pacific.  Pacific Deterrence Initiative Overall, the current and previous administrations have affirmed the reemergence of strategic competition with other great powers as the central… Read more »

U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) joined the U.S. House Problem Solvers Caucus. Read more »