Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono
The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness
Authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center for an event to celebrate the birthday of King Kamehameha I.
The resolution provides a one-day federal venue and safety-managed framework for a King Kamehameha I commemorative celebration—supporting cultural observance—while temporarily restricting public access to Emancipation Hall and causing modest added operational costs for Capitol staff.
Transit Oriented Development Act of 2026
Fireworks Trafficking and Money Laundering Prevention Act
Hawai‘i National Cemetery Act
The bill would provide Hawai‘i veterans and their families much easier, local access to national cemetery burials and greater transparency in site selection, at the cost of substantial federal spending, potential duplication with state facilities, land acquisition challenges, and likely multi-year development delays.
Noncontiguous Shipping Relief Act of 2024
The bill expands cargo capacity and regulatory clarity and raises worker and environmental standards in coastwise trade—potentially lowering freight costs and improving protections—while creating competitive pressure on U.S. shipbuilders, adding compliance and enforcement costs, and altering some legal remedies for seafarers.
Noncontiguous Shipping Reasonable Rate Act of 2024
The bill creates a transparent, index-based benchmark that can make ocean freight pricing and FMC enforcement more predictable, but it risks exposing U.S. importers to global price swings, permitting still-high charges within a 10% band, and leaving key choices to administrative discretion.
Noncontiguous Shipping Competition Act
The bill increases access to foreign and non‑U.S.‑built vessels for noncontiguous routes—potentially lowering costs and improving service—while risking losses in U.S. maritime jobs and shipbuilding capacity and adding regulatory uncertainty.
American Seabed Protection Act
The bill prioritizes protecting coastal ecosystems, Indigenous subsistence and cultural values, and better science-based decision making by banning commercial deep seabed and OCS hardrock mining, but it does so by effectively pausing domestic mineral development and creating economic, supply-chain, and cost trade-offs.
To oppose the permitting of deep seabed mining and exploration for deep seabed mining, and for other purposes.
The bill prioritizes protecting marine ecosystems and vulnerable coastal/Indigenous communities by pausing seabed mining and pushing for science-based international rules, at the cost of delaying access to seabed minerals needed for some clean-energy supply chains and risking diplomatic friction and displacement of mining to less-regulated jurisdictions.
PROSPER in the Pacific Act
The bill aims to expand U.S. economic and strategic ties with Pacific Island nations—providing duty‑free access, export opportunities, and stronger labor/environmental standards—while trading off increased competition for some U.S. producers, budgetary and administrative costs, and risks of politicization or uneven enforcement.