Jill Tokuda: “On August 8, 2023, Lahaina experienced a devastating wildfire that destroyed the entire town and claimed the lives of…”

Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike, came together to pass the American Relief Act of 2025, securing $12 billion to rebuild communities devastated by disaster. We made a promise to North Carolina, Florida, Texas, and Maui. Mr…

I stood in a field where 20,000 saplings ready to be planted drowned before they ever had a chance to grow. I saw thousands of coffee trees lost, including heritage trees planted by the original owners generations ago, gone in a single…

on a hilltop in Santa Fe, New Mexico, there is an interpretive plaque on a boulder. It stands where the government locked up thousands of Japanese as so-called enemy aliens. My great-grandfather, my GG, was one of them. He was locked…

As co-chair of the bipartisan Rural Health Caucus, I am proud to lead my colleagues today in celebrating National Rural Health Month. With 61 million people, roughly 20 percent of the United States population, living across 97 percent of…