Press Releases
Congressional Pacific Islands Caucus: 2024 Year-In-Review
Background
The bipartisan Congressional Pacific Islands Caucus was formed in 2019. It currently consists of 36 U.S. House Members and is co-chaired by the following Members of Congress: Aumua Amata Radewagen Coleman (R-AS), Ed Case (D-HI), Young Kim (R-CA), Ami Bera (D-CA), Ann Wagner (R-MO) and Brad Sherman (D-CA).
The Caucus has the following objectives:
U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai’i-First District) today announced that the U.S. House of Representatives has passed H.R. 7159, his proposed Pacific Partnership Act, to further increase U.S. engagement in the critical Pacific region.
Case, a Co-Chair and Founding Member of the first-ever Congressional Pacific Islands Caucus, introduced the measure together with 25 other bipartisan colleagues.
On July 30, 2024, twelve Members of the Pacific Islands Caucus sent a letter to U.S. Peace Corps Director Carol Spahn urging Peace Corps expansion in the Pacific.
WASHINGTON — Today, the bipartisan Congressional Pacific Islands Caucus announced the addition of Congresswoman Aumua Amata Radewagen as a Co-Chair of the Caucus to take over for the late Congressman Don Young (AK).
WASHINGTON—Today, Representatives Ed Case (HI-01), Ami Bera (CA-07), Steve Chabot (OH-01), and Brad Sherman (CA-30), all co-chairs of the Congressional Pacific Islands Caucus, released the following statement regarding the announcement of Ambassador Joseph Yun as the Special Presidential Envoy to head negotiations with the Freely Associated States—the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau—to extend the Compacts
WASHINGTON—Today, Representatives Ed Case (HI-01), Don Young (AK-At Large), Ami Bera (CA-07), Steve Chabot (OH-01), and Brad Sherman (CA-30), each co-chairs of the Congressional Pacific Islands Caucus, released the following statement about last week's signing of a threshold agreement between Solomon Islands and the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation.
Co-chairs of the Congressional Pacific Islands Caucus and Representatives Ed Case (D-HI), Don Young (R-AK), Ami Bera (D-CA) and Brad Sherman (D-CA) have reintroduced an expanded Boosting Long-term US Engagement in the Pacific, or BLUE Pacific, Act.