Congressional Delegation

The East-West Center in Hawaii received a $5.9 million earmark....

• Senate: Opioid Abuse – Anti-Kickback Penalties
  
• Senate: Opioid Abuse – Additional Funding
  
• House: Ensuring Terminated Providers are Removed from Medicaid and CHIP– Passage
  
• House: Regulatory Action and Kilns – Passage

• North Korea Sanctions
  
• Customs and Trade Enforcement 
  
• Limit on National Science Foundation
  
• Debt Reduction Plans 
  
• Menu Nutrition Disclosures 

• Senate: Energy Policy – Cloture
• House: Affordable Housing – Passage
• House: Health Care Repeal Reconciliation – Presidential Veto Override
• House: Iran Sanctions – Passage
• House: Reduce SEC Regulation of Small Companies – Passage
• House: Financial Institution Customer Protection – Passage

Senate: Energy Policy – GAO Report on Energy Production....

"This is wholly unacceptable behavior in a democracy."

• Senate: Budget Reconciliation 
• Senate: Surface Transportation Reauth
• House: Fiscal 2016 Intelligence Authorization
• House: EPA Existing Power Plant Rule Disapproval  
• House: EPA New and Retrofitted Power Plant Rule Disapproval
• House: K-12 Education Reauthorization 
• House: Energy Security and Infrastructure Overhaul
• House: Surface Transportation Reauthorization

Memo to candidates for Congress next year:  If you are seeking signatures for your nominating petition, you might start in the DOE director's office....

Faleomavaega's sister, Vaitunasa Salu Hunkin-Finau is prepared to make a bid to return the office to family hands....

...if you thought this was an isolated incident, you haven't been paying attention to Tulsi Gabbard....

MegaVote for Hawaii's 1st & 2nd Congressional Districts....

"...it kind of reminds me of how high school teenagers act,” Ms. Gabbard said....

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said: “The Administration continues to put our resources toward failed missions and strengthening our enemy, rather than focusing on defeating our enemy...."

...a Navy man told police that Whitt molested him while he slept....

Both Schatz and Hirono support the Iran nuke deal ....

"Our exclusively Democratic congressional delegation is ranked the least effective congressional delegation in the United States by Roll Call newspaper."

The U.S. House passed its FY 2016 transportation appropriations bill earlier this month, and the Senate bill was reported from the Senate Committee on Appropriations on June 25....

This is far more than a trade agreement, but creates a self-governing and self-perpetuating Commission with extraordinary implications for American workers and American sovereignty....

• Senate: Fiscal 2016 Defense Authorization -- Cloture
• House: CFTC Operations – Passage
• House: Fiscal 2016 Transportation-HUD Appropriations
• House: Police Body Cameras – Passage
• House: Meat Labeling – Passage
• House: Fiscal 2016 Defense Appropriations – Passage

• House: Fiscal 2016 Military Construction - VA Appropriations - Passage
• House: D.C. Reproductive Health Law - Passage
• House: Fiscal 2016 Energy-Water Appropriations - Passage

• Senate: Human Trafficking Victims' Fund - Passage
• Senate: Lynch Nomination – Cloture
• House: Consumer Financial Protection Advisory Boards – Passage

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