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MEDIA RELEASE U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Akaka made the following remarks this week in the Congressional Record: I rise today in celebration of the Hawaiian language. February is designated as the ‘Month of the Hawaiian Language’ by the State of Hawaii. Speakers and students of the language use this time to foster and promote Hawaiian [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Akaka has posted a video as part of YouTube’s Town Hall. YouTube Town Hall invites viewers to watch competing entries from Members of Congress and choose which member’s video to support. Akaka responded to the question: “Given that 50 percent of Congress people are millionaires, do you represent the [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE According to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 21,278 Hawaii residents with Medicare saved $6,891,558 on their prescription drugs in 2011 thanks to the Affordable Care Act Savings for people with Medicare will increase over time. According to a new report issued today from HHS, the average person with [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Epic Ohana, Inc. has announced the expansion of The Hawaii Youth Opportunities Initiative (HYOI), formed to improve outcomes for young people who age out of the foster care system, to East Hawaii. The expansion to East Hawaii is an important step towards making these services available statewide. The HYOI was launched in 2010 [...]

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Department of Defense studies have concluded that air conditioning accounts for 30-60% of its total facility energy expenditures. Switching from fossil fuels to solar heat will help the DOD to meet is aggressive renewable energy targets. The demonstration project at Davis-Monthan AFB is scheduled for completion in March 2012.

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MEDIA RELEASE U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii), a member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, supported bipartisan legislation that he helped develop and would provide Hawaii with more than $45 million in transportation funding for Fiscal Year 2012. The Federal Public Transportation Act of 2012 was approved unanimously by the committee. [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Gov. Neil Abercrombie has announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has designated Hawaii County as a primary natural disaster area resulting from ongoing drought conditions. The governor last month applied for the designation, which clears the way for Hawaii Island farmers and ranchers to apply for available federal relief. Hawaii County was [...]

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HawaiiCounty.gov and HawaiiCountyMayor.com have been updated with accessibility in mind, enabling those who use assistive technology to more easily browse the web to access information and news about County departments and programs.

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Big Island police are searching for two men and two women wanted on bench warrants for failure to appear in court.

Brittany Milam, 29, of Hilo is described as 5-foot-2, 115 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.

Ikaikamakani Viernes, 31, of Mountain View is described as 6-feet tall, 220 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.

Richard Correa, 49, of Hilo is described as 5-foot-6, 205 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.

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MEDIA RELEASE U. S. Senate candidate Ed Case has publicly asked his Democratic opponent Mazie Hirono to “hit the road” with him statewide to take their candidacies to Hawaii’s voters together. “Voters are entitled to listen to us debate the issues of our day, just as we must be able to do as their United [...]

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Today, U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii) joined 25 Senate colleagues in calling on Ambassador Nancy Brinker, Founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, to reconsider her organization’s decision to stop funding cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood.

“It would be tragic if any woman—let alone thousands of women— lost access to these potentially life-saving screenings because of a politically motivated attack,” the Senators wrote.

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MEDIA RELEASE Neighbor island Democratic Congressional candidate Bob Marx supports a national bill to increase millionaires’ income tax rate to 30 percent. The bill, to be introduced by U.S. Sens. Daniel Akaka (D-HI) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), would bring in about $50 billion a year. Speaking Wednesday to a group of Kaneohe democrats, Marx said: [...]

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