Rep. Ed Case @RepEdCase

Highlight: Constituent Services. We really appreciate being able to help our constituents with your own individual concerns. Here are two more successes cutting thru red tape to get real answers on Social Security benefits and student loans. For more on our constituent services: case.house.gov/forms/casework/. We are here to help you!

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Here’s a replay of my live districtwide Tele-Talk Story last nite. Really grateful to the thousands who joined. We covered a lot, including the unacceptably high cost of living, the Trump administration, my Appropriations Committee work funding billions of assistance to our Hawai’i annually, and my individual constituent services. Please check it out and join in letting me know your questions and guidance at [email protected]. There’s a ton more on my website at case.house.gov. facebook.com/share/v/1Jbdf6…

June 1st brings in Pride Month, when we especially celebrate the contributions of our LGBTQ+ communities, remember those many whose dedication brought us this far, and recommit ourselves to the never-ending fight for equality for all. I’ve been a member of our Congressional Equality Caucus (equality.house.gov) throughout my service in Congress. Our current Chair, my colleague and friend @RepMarkTakano, said it well: “Pride Month is more than rainbows and parades, it is a protest - a demand for fairness, dignity and equality under the law.” #PrideMonth

Fully enforcing our illegal fireworks laws and keeping our communities safe takes increased penalties on the largescale manufacturers and distributors. I joined @RepJillTokuda in introducing our legislation to make transporting illegal fireworks across state lines a federal money laundering felony. More: case.house.gov/news/documents…

To keep reporting back to you on my work in Congress, answer your questions and get your guidance, I’m hosting my seventh district wide talk story community meeting (this one a Tele-Talk Story) this coming Monday, June 1st, 6-7:30 pm Hawai’i time. All the details are here: case.house.gov/events/. Hope you join!

Sharing my 2026 Mid-Year Congressional Report, including Capitol Hill and District Highlights, Appropriations Highlights and Constituent Services, providing details on my Monday, June 1st, 6pm Hawai’i time Tele-Talk Story, and asking for continued guidance. For more info on my Tele-Talk Story: case.house.gov/events/.

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Sharing my report to partners back home on the advancement of women and related initiatives throughout our country, including a 14-page summary of my efforts in Congress on women's issues from 2019 to present. case.house.gov/UploadedFiles/…

Despite including a bunch of my requests for Hawai’i such as clean energy, energy savings and coastal erosion control programs, I had to vote in Appropriations against the proposed Fiscal Year 2027 Energy and Water funding measure because it guts national energy efforts that keep prices down along with critical scientific research, risks natural disaster mitigation and recovery efforts, and generally takes our energy future in the wrong direction. More:  case.house.gov/news/documents…

The weeds count. Since 1921 the Government Accountability Office (GAO; gao.gov), Congress’ own watchdog agency, has provided our legislative branch with the capacity and expertise we need to properly oversee our federal government including the administration. In our Appropriations Committee’s deliberations on funding for Congress for the upcoming fiscal year, I spoke in strong opposition to my majority colleagues’ proposed 25% reduction of GAO funding, crippling Congress’ ability to fulfill our constitutional obligations as a separate and independent branch of government. We need to reverse this. youtube.com/watch?v=i1lnIX…

I am very proud of my great staff in DC and Honolulu who are key to fulfilling my mission of helping lead our country, helping our Hawai’i and helping our constituents. I bring them all together once a year for a weekend retreat to review what we’re doing right and how we can improve. We had a great retreat this year in the Library of Congress in DC and in Baltimore, including a special appearance by Senator Schatz to share his insights on national issues and working together to help Hawai’i, and a special visit to Fort McHenry, over which “that Star Spangled Banner yet wave[d]” during the War of 1812, inspiring our National Anthem.

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Here’s my 2026 Veterans Report to Hawaii’s some 109,000 vets and ‘ohana on my efforts in Congress including funding veterans programs, supporting veterans health care, addressing the high cost of living, advancing another national cemetery, and providing individual assistance. case.house.gov/UploadedFiles/…

As Hawaii’s top economic driver past, present and future, supporting hundreds of thousands of jobs throughout our state, Hawai’i and travel and tourism is one of my top priorities in Congress, from legislative policies to Appropriations funding to joint efforts with like-minded colleagues through our Congressional Travel and Tourism Caucus and more. I also stay in very close contacts with national organizations like the American Hotel and Lodging Assn and Hawai’i affiliates like the Hawai’i Hotel Alliance, so its always very productive when they visit me on Capitol Hill.

Always gratifying when we’re able to help our constituents with their own individual concerns, this one with cutting thru red tape at Social Security. For more on our constituent services: case.house.gov/forms/casework/.

Another mixed result in Appropriations this week with our fifth of twelve annual federal funding measures, this for important Commerce-Justice-Science efforts. A bunch of my requests for Hawai’i were included, like all ten of my CPFs (Community Project Funding for worthy individual district projects). But I had to vote against the overall measure in committee because it would do so much damage to key national small business, conservation, violence prevention, science and other programs. More: case.house.gov/news/documentq…

Packed week of DC visitors discussing important issues including: American Assn of People with Disabilities/Hawai’i; American Foundation for Suicide Prevention/Hawai’i; American Hotel & Lodging Assn/Hawai’i Hotel Alliance; U.S. Army War College; Dr. Naoto Ueno/UH Cancer Center; Asian Real Estate Assn of America/Hawai’i; Pearl Harbor National Memorial/Pacific Historic Parks; and Minister Ken Ono/Embassy of Japan.

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It may be crunch week in Appropriations, but I’m still in a ‘Bows glow zone. Here’s my video message from the Capitol to the team and fans at last nite’s homecoming rally. And I just introduced, with Rep. Tokuda, a resolution in the House ( Sens. Schatz and Hirono introduced it in the Senate), expressing Congress’ congratulations as well. Go ‘Bows, Go Hawai’i! case.house.gov/UploadedFiles/…

Before returning to Capitol Hill for an intense few weeks in my Appropriations Committee, I was really honored to join Hanahau’oli School to discuss the importance of protecting our Hawaii’s ‘aina and especially our unique and often critically endangered plants and animals. I was with entomologist Dr. Dan Rubinoff of UH-Manoa who led a team discovering a carnivorous caterpillar living only in a small part of Hawai’i and previously unknown to science, the “Bone Collector”. The Hanahau’oli students wove a whole study of our endemic and endangered wildlife around this rare native caterpillar and our collective kuleana for its survival.

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Hawai’i in the House! Redeyed back to Capitol Hill in time to watch the ‘Bows take it all from my office. Hawai'i Proud!

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