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… Read more »
(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… Read more »
(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… Read more »
(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… 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) 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… 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 »
(Honolulu, HI) - U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) announced that today the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 3351, the Financial Services & General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2020. The bill is the tenth of twelve appropriations bills reported to the full House by the Committee on Appropriations, on which Case serves, and funding a total of… Read more »
