Editing Hawaii (section)

===Federal government===
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File:Brian Schatz, official portrait, 113th Congress 2.jpg|Senator [[Brian Schatz]]
File:Mazie Hirono, official portrait, 113th Congress.jpg|Senator [[Mazie Hirono]]
File:Ed Case, official portrait, 117th Congress.jpg|Representative [[Ed Case]] ([[Hawaii's 1st congressional district|HI-1]])
File:Rep. Jill Tokuda official photo, 118th Congress (1).jpg|Representative [[Jill Tokuda]] ([[Hawaii's 2nd congressional district|HI-2]])
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Hawaii is represented in the [[United States Congress]] by two senators and two [[United States House of Representatives|representatives]]. {{As of|2023}}, all four seats are held by Democrats. Former representative [[Ed Case]] was elected in 2018 to the [[Hawaii's 1st congressional district|1st congressional district]]. [[Jill Tokuda]] represents the [[Hawaii's 2nd congressional district|2nd congressional district]], representing the rest of the state, which is largely rural and semi-rural.<ref name="Representative Jill Tokuda">{{Cite web |title=tokuda.house.gov |date=January 3, 2023 |url=https://tokuda.house.gov/about |access-date=19 February 2023}}</ref>

[[Brian Schatz]] is the senior United States senator from Hawaii. He was appointed to the office on December 26, 2012, by Governor [[Neil Abercrombie]], following the death of former senator [[Daniel Inouye]]. Schatz then won the 2014 special election, and the 2016 and 2022 regular elections in Hawaii as Senator.

The state's junior senator is [[Mazie Hirono]], the former representative from the second congressional district. She won in the 2012, 2018, and 2024 elections for Senator in Hawaii, following the retirement of [[Daniel Akaka]]. Hirono is the first female Asian American senator and the first Buddhist senator.

Hawaii incurred the biggest [[Seniority in the United States Senate|seniority]] shift between the [[112th United States Congress|112th]] and [[113th United States Congress|113th]] Congresses. The state went from a delegation consisting of senators who were first and twenty-first in seniority{{efn|Senator Inouye, who ranked first in seniority, died in December 2012. Senator [[Daniel Akaka]], who ranked 21st of the Senate's one hundred members, retired in January 2013 after serving twenty-three years in the Senate.}} to their respective replacements, relative newcomers Schatz and Hirono.<ref>{{cite web |last=Blackwell |first=Sarah |url=http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/01/04/the-junior-senior-senators/ |title=msnbc's ''The Daily Rundown'', 23 December 2009, accessed 6 January 2012 |publisher=nbcnews.com |date=January 4, 2013 |access-date=January 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130109163428/http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/01/04/the-junior-senior-senators/ |archive-date=January 9, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Federal officials in Hawaii are based at the [[Prince Kuhio Federal Building|Prince Kūhiō Federal Building]] near the [[Aloha Tower]] and Honolulu Harbor. The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]], [[Internal Revenue Service]] and the [[United States Secret Service|Secret Service]] maintain their offices there; the building is also the site of the [[United States federal courts|federal]] [[United States District Court for the District of Hawaii|District Court for the District of Hawaii]] and the [[United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii]].