Family is central to the holiday season in America spending days at home together traveling to visit family sharing meals and exchanging gifts Most of us take for granted that we ll be with family this holiday season and likely next holiday season as ...
The federal government will remain funded through next September assuming President Barack Obama signs the 1 1 trillion spending bill approved by the U S Senate late Saturday evening in Washington D C
The vote was 56 40 which came after surv...
The U S Congress may soon be controlled by Republicans but Hawaii s Democrats in the Senate have secured important committee assignments that begin early next year
Brian Schatz will serve on the Senate Committee on Appropriations while Mazie Hi...
U S Sen Mazie Hirono the only immigrant in the U S Senate on Thursday praised President Barack Obama s executive action on immigration
The Hawaii Democrat who as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee was responsible for several provisi...
U S Sen Mazie Hirono talked with Civil Beat shortly after President Barack Obama on Thursday announced executive action to bolster border security and protect nearly 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation
While she said the plan is ...
Who says Congress can t agree on anything
On Monday the U S Senate passed 88 1 the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014 Both of Hawaii s senators voted in favor of the measure
Mike Lee of Utah was the lone Republican to v...
The U S and China have reached a new reciprocal agreement concerning travel visa policies
President Obama made the announcement Monday while in Beijing for the summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
That s why I m very please...
HONOLULU Former Hawaii Congresswoman Patsy Takemoto Mink will posthumously receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom
The awards will be presented at the White House on Nov 24
Mink broke down long standing barriers to create equal acces...
WASHINGTON D C Senator Mazie K Hirono today applauded President Obama s announcement that the U S and China have agreed to mutually extend the validity period for travel visas between the two countries Beginning this November 12 the maximum validit...
Veterans Day is a time to remember and honor the contributions and sacrifices of our nation s veterans Our thanks to the 120 000 veterans in Hawaii
In August I chaired a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee field hearing on the state of veterans ...