Congressional Delegation

• Senate: Keystone XL Pipeline - Passage
• House: Liquefied Natural Gas Exports - Passage

• Senate: Keystone XL Pipeline - Climate Change
• Senate: Keystone XL Pipeline - Energy Efficiency Standards
• House: Gas Pipeline Permit Deadlines – Passage
• House: Federal Abortion Funding Ban – Passage

Senate: Confirmation of Vivek Hallegere Murthy to be Surgeon General....

"...Defendants, pursuant to Hawaii law, selected this appointee through a process that ignores the Seventeenth Amendment...."

• Senate: Fiscal 2015 Omnibus Appropriations - Motion to Concur
• House: Fiscal 2015 Omnibus Appropriations - Passage

The Geoghegan firm successfully represented plaintiffs in Judge v. Quinn involving related Seventeenth Amendment issues resulting from the temporary appointment to the US Senate of Roland Burris....

...the “2014 Congressional Pigbook,” published by the Citizens Against Government Waste identifies federal government “pork” spending in the millions of dollars in Hawaii....

...On Aug. 3,  2013, Sherbow sent an email to the FBI and the media with the headline “Cutting Off Tulsi Gabbard’s Head.”....

Democratic leaders in Washington should put job creation ahead of the ravings of environmental wing-nuts and their deep pocketed billionaire funders....

Senate: Child Care and Development Block Grant - Cloture

House: Keystone XL Pipeline - Passage

Congressional candidate Aumua Amata was yesterday elected to serve as American Samoa’s non-voting Delegate to the U.S. House, unseating longtime incumbent, Congressman Faleomavaega Eni....

...a former member of Faleomavaega's staff is suing the delegate....

...by calculating the number of elected officials in the federal government per adult population in each state for the most recent election years....

...if we are honored to win this race, in our first 30 days in office, I will....

...the election being conducted by Defendant Nago and the State of Hawaii Office of Elections is unconstitutional under the Seventeenth Amendment....

...Faleomavaega neither resigned nor retired and finally has returned home just a few days short of a year after his medical evacuation last October....

GovTrack predicts S.567 and H.R.3118 has a 0% chance of passing out of committee and a 0% probability of being enacted....

Djou Emphasizes Critical Need for Bipartisan Congressional Delegation....

Only Vermont is worse....

Senate: Equal Pay - Cloture

Senate: Fiscal 2015 Continuing Resolution - Passage

House: Fiscal 2015 Continuing Resolution - Passage

The poorest scoring Senators were Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), each of whom only managed scores of 3 percent....

As then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said: "US citizenship is a privilege, it is not a right. People who are serving foreign powers or in this case foreign terrorists are clearly in violation of that oath which they swore when they became citizens."

Senate: Campaign Finance Constitutional Amendment - Cloture

House: Water Regulation - Passage

House: Health Plan Extensions - Passage

Djou's opponent failed to attend today's candidate forum and also missed a candidate forum last night in Mapunapuna....

...The rejection of the disaster declaration shows the people of Hawaii that Schatz has no influence where it matters most....

...the United Nations third decennial conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS)  will run from September 1-4 in Samoa....

...These are the kinds of issues that have dominated Faleomavaega’s agenda over the years when he hasn’t been traveling....

Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: Insourcing Incentives - Cloture
• House: Higher Education Tax Credits - Passage

• Senate: Castro Nomination - Confirmation
• Senate: Donovan Nomination - Confirmation
• House: Workforce Investment Reauthorization - Motion to Concur
• House: Fiscal 2015 Energy-Water Appropriations - Passage

Both chambers are in recess until the week of July 7....

• Senate: Veterans Benefits - Passage
• Senate: Fischer Nomination - Confirmation
• House: Fiscal 2014 NASA Authorization - Passage
• House: Fiscal 2015 Transportation-HUD Appropriations - Passage

• Senate: Water Projects - Conference Report
• House: Water Projects - Conference Report
• House: NSA Metadata Collection - Passage
• House: Fiscal 2015 Defense Authorization - Passage

Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: Energy-Efficient Building Codes –Cloture
• House: Benghazi Select Committee–Passage
• House: Research Tax Credit –Passage
• House: Charter School Program Expansion–Passage

The 2014 Congressional Pig Book Summary gives a snapshot of each appropriations bill and details the juiciest projects culled from the complete Pig Book....

• Senate: Friedland Nomination – Confirmation
• Senate: Minimum Wage Increase – Cloture
• House: Mil Con/Veterans Affairs Appropriations – Passage
• House: Legislative Branch Appropriations – Passage

To see what coverage of the delegation looks like in a newspaper which does not worship at the shrine of home-state congressional seniority, readers must turn to the Wall Street Journal....

• Senate: Unemployment Benefits Extension – Passage
• Senate: Equal Pay – Cloture
• House: Budget Resolution – Passage

Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: Unemployment Benefits – Cloture
• House: Ukraine Aid – Passage
• House: Employee Hours Rules – Passage

Upcoming Congressional Bills

• Senate: Medicare “Doc Fix”
• Senate: Unemployment Benefits
• House: Ukraine Aid
• House: Health Care Reform

The House and Senate will be in recess until March 24....