{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://case.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2198", "Case Honored With National Leadership Award For Work On World's Oceans", "2023-06-30", "2023", "2023-06", "Democrat", "House", "HI", "Ed Case", "C001055", "case.house.gov", "case", "https://case.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27&Page=13", "scraper", "(Washington, DC) \u2013 U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai\u2018i \u2013 District 1) was given the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation\u2019s prestigious 2023 Leadership Award during a recent 600-person gala in Washington, DC which wrapped up the annual Capitol Hill Ocean Week bringing together advocates for the world\u2019s oceans.\n\nThe Foundation honors one or two political leaders per year who demonstrate a commitment to ocean, coastal and Great Lakes stewardship. Previous awardees include President Clinton, President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush, and U.S. Senators Ted Stevens (Alaska) and Sheldon Whitehouse (Rhode Island).\n\n\u201cWhile I was truly honored to have received this award, it is just a moment in time when compared to the critical threats that face our oceans across a number of fronts,\u201d said Case. \u201cI am mostly just grateful to be part of a community of true passion who cares so deeply for our oceans and are so personally committed to saving them from what has become their worst enemy: humankind.\u201d\n\nThe Foundation recognized Case as a longtime leader in ocean policy in Congress. Case was an early advocate for and was instrumental in the designation of the Papah\u0101naumoku\u0101kea Marine National Monument in 2006 and current efforts to expand protections for the Pacific Remote Islands.\n\nCase, a member of the House Appropriations and Natural Resources Committees since his return to Congress in 2019, also co-led reauthorization of the Coral Reef Conservation Program and continues to fight for ocean-based climate solutions, sustainable climate ready fisheries management, and international cooperation and coordination in saving our world\u2019s oceans.\n\nCase shared the 2023 Leadership Award with his colleague, Congressman Ra\u00fal M. Grijalva of Arizona. The Foundation said that he has been a leading voice on environmental and social justice issues since being elected Congress more than two decades ago. In 2018, he became Chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources, a role in which he successfully elevated climate action, environmental justice and indigenous affairs in national ocean policy.\n\nTwo fellow Hawai\u2019i residents - Solomon (Sol) Pili Kaho\u02bbohalahala and William J. Ail\u0101 \u2013 received the Foundation\u2019s Sanctuary Wavemaker Award for their critical work benefiting national marine sanctuaries.\n\nKaho\u02bbohalahala, who served with Case in the Hawai\u2018i State House of Representatives, serves as Chairperson of the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council. He is the current native Hawaiian member on the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument community group and a member of the Pacific Remote Islands Coalition. During the Obama Administration, he advocated successfully for the expansion of the Papah\u0101naumoku\u0101kea Marine National Monument, creating the world\u2019s largest marine protected area, and currently serves as its native Hawaiian elder on the reserve advisory council.\n\nAila, who has served Hawai\u2019i in various capacities including Chair of the Board of Land and Natural Resources and the Hawaiian Homes Commission, has been deeply committed to protecting areas that have deep cultural importance as well as significant natural resource value. He expanded Hawaii\u2019s Natural Area Reserve program, streamlined permitting for restoration of Hawaiian fishponds and helped create the first community-based subsistence fishing area in Haena, Kauai. He was also instrumental in the creation and expansion of Papah\u0101naumoku\u0101kea Marine National Monument and was the former chair of the Papah\u0101naumoku\u0101kea Reserve Advisory Council.\n\nAttachments:\n\n\u00b7 Video of Congressman Case\u2019s remarks accepting Leadership Award courtesy National Marine Sanctuary Foundation here.\n\n\u00b7 Pictures of gala ceremony courtesy National Marine Sanctuary Foundation\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T00:08:25Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://case.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2198"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.525850035250187, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}