WASHINGTON D C Senator Mazie K Hirono voted today to pass the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act WIOA bipartisan legislation to update the Workforce Investment Act WIA of 1998 The bill improves the nation s workforce development system by s...
WASHINGTON D C Senator Mazie K Hirono a member of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs Conference Committee gave an opening statement on Hawaii wait times at the committee s first meeting The committee is working on a compromise version of the Ve...
WASHINGTON DC Today Senator Mazie K Hirono released the following statement commemorating the 42nd anniversary of the Patsy Takemoto Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act commonly known as Title IX This landmark federal law requires gender equity i...
WASHINGTON D C Today the Department of the Interior released an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ANPRM regarding Procedures for Reestablishing a Government to Government Relationship with the Native Hawaiian Community The purpose of this ANPR...
Hawaii s two U S senators are co sponsors of legislation that would give Hawaii another health care facility for veterans possibly built in Leeward Oahu and named after retired Sen Daniel Akaka
The bill is among the stack of measures intended ...
A bill in the U S Senate would enable Hawaii to open a new veterans health care facility on Oahu
The bill was announced by Senate Veteran Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders on Thursday It includes funding for more than two dozen new faci...
With the recent resignation of VA Secretary Eric Shinseki veterans health care issues are fresh in the American psyche and in the forefront of discussion among members of Hawaii s congressional delegation
Tulsi Gabbard Brian Schatz and Mazie ...
Hirono s early childhood was spent on her grandparents rice farm in Fukushima Japan Her father was an alcoholic and compulsive gambler Instead of watching her family continue to suffer Hirono s mother made the courageous decision to seek a better life...
TRNS Focusing on how a progressive agenda will benefit across the country a collection of Senate Democrats spoke out Wednesday on the importance of passing Sen Elizabeth Warren s D Mass Bank on Student Emergency Loan Refinancing Act to curb student ...
The weather can be iffy in Normandy this time of year but the forecast now calls for a beautiful day Friday partly cloudy and highs around 77 for the 70th anniversary of the landing that began the drive to liberate Western Europe from the grip of Nazi G...