WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), a member of the Senate Armed Services and Veterans Affairs Committees, will join a bipartisan Senate delegation traveling to Normandy, France to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion by Allied forces during World War II. "I am honored to attend the 80th anniversary of D-Day and pay tribute to those who served and made the ultimate sacrifice on the beaches of Normandy, changing the course of history," said Senator  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 3 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) Chair Representative Judy Chu (D-CA), and Representatives Mark Takano (D-CA), Jill Tokuda (D-HI), and Doris Matsui (D-CA) led 14 other CAPAC members in sending a letter to President Biden expressing their support for the posthumous nomination of Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi for the Presidential Medal of Freedom. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government forced 120,000 more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) and Susan Collins (R-ME) and Representatives Adam Smith (D-WA) and Don Bacon (R-NE) led their colleagues in introducing the Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2024, which would grant U.S. citizenship to international adoptees who were legally adopted in the U.S. as children but lack citizenship status due to a loophole in the Child Citizenship Act of 2000. "For years, thousands of internationally-adopted children from American fami more PR

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) released the following statement ahead of the Senate vote tomorrow on their bill, the Right to Contraception Act. The bill would guarantee the right for people to obtain and use contraceptives and for health providers to prescribe contraceptives and give information related to contraception, free from government interference. "Decades after the U.S. Supreme Co more PR

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Representative Mike Quigley (D-IL) introduced the National Interagency Seed and Restoration Center Establishment Act, legislation that would create and fund a National Interagency Seed and Restoration Center within the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) to promote the conservation and restoration of native plant communities across the U.S. "In more PR

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Washington (June 4, 2024) - Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee's Subcommittee on Primary Health & Retirement Security, Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) released the following statement ahead of the Senate vote on the Right to Contraception Act. The bill would guarantee the right for people to obtain and use contraceptives and for health providers to pr more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Rep. Jill Tokuda, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Representative Jill Tokuda (HI-02) announced that her office is now accepting applications from students in Hawaii's Second Congressional District for Military Service Academies. Qualified applicants must submit their applications no later than Friday, October 25, 2024, at 11:59 pm HST. Every year, members of Congress are given a limited number of candidates to nominate for appointment to these academies. Rep. Tokuda can only nominate a limited number of exce more PR

WASHINGTON, June 1 -- Rep. Jill Tokuda, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Yesterday, Representative Jill Tokuda (HI-02) attended the Ni'ihau High and Elementary School graduation to help celebrate this momentous occasion for two high school students. Along with Rep. Tokuda, State Department of Education Kaua'i Complex Area Superintendent Daniel Hamada and Kaua'i County Board of Education Member William Arakaki joined the Ni'ihau community in congratulating Brianne Kanahele and Jayna Niau Jr. They are the only 2024 graduates from th more PR

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- Rep. Jill Tokuda, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on June 6, 2024: Today, U.S. Representative Jill Tokuda (HI-02), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, paid tribute to members of the military and honored them at the 80th D-Day Anniversary ceremonies at the American Cemetery. "Eighty years ago, tens of thousands of men, including many from Hawaii, put freedom before fear and marked a turning point in the war here on the beaches of Normandy. "It has been a humbling honor to remember and pay respect more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 (TNSres) -- Rep. Adam Smith, D-Washington, issued the following news release on June 4, 2024: Today Representatives Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and Don Bacon (R-Neb.) and Senators Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced the Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2024, which would grant U.S. citizenship to international adoptees who were legally adopted in the U.S. as children but lack citizenship status due to a loophole in the Child Citizenship Act of 2000. "Through no fault of their own, there are an estimated tens of more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), along with the Senate Democratic Caucus, voted to protect people's right to use contraception as Republicans escalate attacks on reproductive freedoms. With a vote of 51-39, Republicans blocked the bill from advancing for consideration. Ahead of the vote, Schatz spoke on the Senate floor about the need to enshrine reproductive freedoms into federal statute as Republicans target contraception and IVF in the wake o more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, released the following statement after President Joe Biden announced that he has made additional disaster assistance available to the State of Hawai'i following the Maui fires. Biden's authorization increases the federal cost share for federal assistance to 100 percent for an additional 90-day period. "This extension means tremendous savings for the state. By covering t more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Washington (June 5, 2024) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee's Subcommittee on Primary Health & Retirement Security, along with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) blasted Senate Republicans who voted against the lawmakers' Right to Contraception Act. The group held a press conference alongside repr more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), vice chairman of the Committee, released the following statements after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government must reimburse the San Carlos Apache Tribe and the Northern Arapaho Tribe millions of dollars for administrative costs tied to years of tribal-run fed more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) led eleven of her colleagues in speaking on the Senate floor in support of the Right to Contraception Act--legislation she leads with Senators Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)--and calling out Republicans for blocking the bill. This legislation would guarantee the right for people to obtain and use contraceptives and for health providers to prescribe contraceptives, and give information related t more PR