• Senate: OMB Director – Confirmation
• Senate: Internet Sales Tax – Cloture Motion
• House: High-Risk Insurance Pools – Rule Vote
• House: FAA Furloughs – Suspension Vote
• House: Federal Helium Sales – Suspension Vote

... mandatory background check bill on already acquired firearms .....

... in states with a dominant insurance carrier, competition and lower prices may not arrive for quite some time ....

... in many states, people won’t have a lot of health insurance choices when the exchanges launch in October ....

Schatz received first-quarter donations from at least 96 individuals who also gave to Hanabusa in 2009 or 2010....

... only California, New Jersey, and New York are more repressive than Hawaii ....

Governor is requested to engage and work with Lanai, Molokai, and the other neighbor island communities when formulating energy policy ....

...because of its broad base...it is applied to nearly every transaction that takes place in Hawaii....

... should be premised on the provision of fair compensation to the City and County of Honolulu ....

Army announces the completion of the Final Environmental Impact Statement to construct and operate a modern Infantry Platoon Battle Course and associated infrastructure at Pōhakuloa....

"The negative changes to SB 642 fall squarely on Senator Green...."

... six town hall meetings that will be held across Oahu during the month of May ....

Hawaii Court decisions on the Constitutional mandate that the contents of a bill must contain only one subject, and the subject of the bill must be expressed in its title....

The “Shield Law” bill passed out of Conference Committee yesterday (HB 622)....

The bills await final, floor votes of both the House and the Senate on Tuesday, April 30th....

The bill appropriated $1.160M for administration costs for two years and $6M in FY15 for subsidies based on a sliding fee scale....

Lead Senate and House negotiators on the State Budget bill announced they closed negotiations three days ahead of an internal deadline. ..

"Now I know what it's like to be God."

The GAO’s 2010 report concludes that the benefits supposedly derived from taxpayer financed campaigns do not occur...

... African American college-enrollment increased by 24 percent ....

HGEA’s Unit 8 membership consists of approximately 2,350 administrative, professional and technical University of Hawaii employees....

... amnesty for some 11 million unlawful immigrants ....

Caldwell said he received further assurance that federal funding for Honolulu’s rail transit project remains firmly on track...

 ... 2013 Hawaii Prayer Breakfast, held on April 12 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village ....

...the massive law that was enacted to solve the problem of the uninsured in America is more likely to worsen it....

As the country continues to reel over the attacks in Boston last week, some in Washington quickly looked for ways to use the attacks to justify their political goals ....

LOST is essentially a new world government of the sea that redistributes wealth and seeks to control supply and demand of oceanic resources....