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Congressman Ed Case to Host Six More Talk Story Community Meetings This Week

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U.S. Congressman Ed Case (HI-01), home from D.C. for the October district work period, will host six more Talk Story community meetings this week: five in-person meetings throughout the First Congressional District from East Honolulu to Mililani and Ko Olina; and one electronic Talk Story. “I can’t imagine a more critical time to stay in very close touch with the folks I represent in…

Case Statement on Congressional Oversight of President's Reported Dealings with Ukraine

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(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…

Introduction of the Safe and Quiet Skies Act

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Madam Speaker, today I have introduced H.R. 4547, the Safe and Quiet Skies Act, to ensure that commercial air tour flights are adequately regulated to ensure safety and address current widespread community disruption. I extend a special thanks to my colleague, Congressman Brad Sherman of California, for cointroducing this necessary measure. The national problem of inadequately…

Case Introduces Measure to Allow Full Enforcement of State and Local Laws Targeting Illegal Short-Term Rentals

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(Honolulu, HI) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1)  introduced on Friday H.R. 4232, a measure to confirm that Internet platforms who knowingly market illegal short-term vacation rentals can be held liable under state and local law.  His “Protecting Local Authority and Neighborhoods” (PLAN) Act would end abusive litigation by Internet-based short-term rental…

Case Says President's Diversion of $3.6 Billion in Key Military Project Fund for Unauthorized Border Wall Cripples Security and Readiness

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(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…

Case Moves to Impose Strict Regulations on Commercial Air Tour Operations

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(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…

Case Forms Congressional Pacific Islands Caucus in the House

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(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…

Case Leads Move to Restore Fiscal Responsibility to Federal Budget

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(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…

Case Seeks Assurances on Civil Liberties Protections in National Counterintelligence Efforts

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(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…

Case Delivers Remarks on Floor Amendment to H.R. 3494 the Intelligence Authorization Act

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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…