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Case Pursues Strict Regulation of Unsafe and Disruptive Commercial Air Tour Operations

| Posted in Press Releases

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) today re-introduced his Safe and Quiet Skies Act, a measure he first introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 116th Congress (2019-2021), to impose strict safety and community disruption regulations on commercial air tour operations to include helicopters and small planes. “In 2019 alone, there were 17…

Remarks on Safe and Quiet Skies Act

| Posted in Speeches & Testimony

Madam Speaker, today I am re-introducing my Safe and Quiet Skies Act from the 116th Congress to ensure that commercial air tour flights are adequately regulated to ensure in-air and on-ground safety and address widespread and accelerating community disruption. I extend a special thanks to my colleagues, Congressmembers Nadler, Neguse, Norton, Sherman and Sires, for co-introducing this…

Case Re-Introduces Bills to Attack Key Driver of Hawai’i’s High Cost of Living

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(Honolulu, HI) -  Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) re-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. “These three bills are meant to end a century of monopolistic closed market domestic cargo shipping to and from…

Remarks on Amending the Jones Act

| Posted in Speeches & Testimony

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…