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(Honolulu, HI) -- U.S. Representative Ed Case (Hawai‘i – First District) announced the winners of his 2025 Congressional Art Competition at Bishop Museum, where entries were on public display. Twenty-three art pieces were entered this year from eight schools throughout his district. “All of this year’s contestants earned our respect for participating in a contest that featured so many… Read more »

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to introduce legislation to ensure that the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) fully supports our small businesses establish and maintain employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). ESOPs offer a powerful way to ensure employees become stakeholders and help run the business they've built. This wealth-generating and retirement plan approach creates a more… Read more »

(Washington, DC) -- U.S. Representative Ed Case (Hawai‘i-First District) today announced introduction of his Indigenous Diplomacy and Engagement Act  “to ensure that our country’s foreign affairs efforts fully encompass and incorporate the independent interconnectedness of our world’s indigenous peoples.” “The estimated 476 million indigenous peoples spread across all parts of our… Read more »

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Representative Ed Case (D-Hawai’i-01), along with U.S. Representative Joe Neguse (D-Colorado-02), today introduced a resolution to designate April as National Native Plant Month to promote the importance of biodiversity, climate and water conservation throughout our country. The Senate passed its version of the resolution co-sponsored by U.S. Senator Mazie… Read more »

Mr. Speaker, I rise to focus attention on one of our most pressing crises: our rapidly deteriorating federal budget, crippled by unsustainable annual deficits and accelerating overall debt. While most prefer to deny or explain it away, we all recognize it, and we all must address it. Our federal budget operates on principles no different from those of a business or family budget.… Read more »

(Washington, DC) -- U.S. Representative Ed Case (Hawai‘i-First District) this morning appeared on C-SPAN’s nationally-televised program, Washington Journal. The live half-hour show features a single member of Congress addressing questions from the host, followed by direct questions from the viewing audience across the country alternating among Republicans, Democrats and… Read more »

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge support for my Indigenous Diplomacy and Engagement Act to ensure that our foreign affairs fully encompass and incorporate the independent interconnectedness of our world's indigenous peoples. The estimated 476 million indigenous peoples spread across all parts of our world are bound together by a common heritage, common wisdom and common challenges… Read more »

I join my colleagues in condemning what can only be seen as sheer desertion--yes, I used the word ``desertion''--of Ukraine by this President, and I deeply regret, at least to date, by my Republican colleagues in Congress. The dictator of Russia, as has already been pointed out, has not seen a better day at least since the successful death of Alexei Navalny. Let's be clear. Putin… Read more »

(Washington, DC) -- U.S. Representative Ed Case (Hawai‘i-First District) today reintroduced his measure to protect the world’s increasingly fragile coral reef ecosystems by restricting international imports of protected ornamental reef fish and coral species collected through destructive practices. “Our oceans, teeming with life and rich biodiversity, depend on the health of coral reefs,… Read more »

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to invite my House colleagues to join Congressman Joe Neguse of Colorado and me in recognizing the critical importance of the native plants of our country by cosponsoring our resolution designating the month of April as Native Plant Month. Native plants are not just a vital part of our natural landscape; they are integral to the environmental health of our… Read more »