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 »
(Honolulu, HI) - Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) today said he has called on the federal government to fully reimburse Hawai‘i for the cost of providing public services to migrants from the Pacific island states covered by the Compacts of Free Association (COFA). These Freely Associated States (FAS) include the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), the Republic of Palau and… Read more »
(Honolulu, HI) - Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) today said the U.S. House voted to include his floor amendment strengthening Hawaiian business exports in a bill to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM).
Founded by executive order in 1934 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and made an independent agency by Congress in 1945, EXIM aids in the financing and… Read more »
HONORING THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY 442ND REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM’S LIBERATION OF THE VOSGES MOUNTAINS
AND REAFFIRMING THE HISTORIC U.S.-FRANCE ALLIANCE
UNITED STATES CONGRESSMAN ED CASE (HAWAI’I)
Bruyères, France
October 20, 2019
Mayor Bonjean, Councilors Poirat and Tarantola, Mayor Caldwell, Consul General McDonald, Consul Maman, distinguished guests,… Read more »
(Honolulu, HI) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) today represented the United States Congress at ceremonies in and around Bruyères, France to honor soldiers of the U.S. Army’s storied 442nd Regimental Combat Team (RCT) on the 75th anniversary of some of their most notable achievements.
In October 1944 the 442nd RCT, by then incorporating the equally storied 100th Infantry… Read more »
(Honolulu, HI) – Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) released the following statement today:
“The allegations that the President pressured a foreign country to investigate a domestic political opponent and withheld foreign assistance as leverage, to go with his Director of National Intelligence’s refusal to produce the whistleblower’s complaint and independent Inspector General’s report to… 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) 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 »
Thank you, Madam Chair.
Not far from here on the slopes of Capitol Hill is a small, serene and unassuming memorial. On its walls are names not now known to too many Americans but indelibly etched in a dark chapter of our national story. Tule Lake, Poston, Manzanar, the internment camps where 120,000 Japanese, most of them American citizens, were locked up in the hysteria of the Second… 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 »
