Neil explains the bipartisan Abercrombie-Peterson energy legislation to reporters at a Capitol news conference.

Neil and Congressional Arts Competition winner Lacey Kaawaloa, a senior at Kamehaha High School.

Neil visits a Headstart class at Kaahumanu Elementary School. Neil was instrumental in winning a significant funding increase for Head Start this year to help meet increasing costs for the pre-school program across the country.

Neil meets with Hawaii's Teacher of the Year Pascale Pinner from Hilo Intermediate School.

Close Up groups from Campbell and Waipahu High Schools meet with Neil.

Joshua Miyazawa, Tee Ball All-star who played on the South Lawn of the White House in July, meets with the Abercrombie staff.

Neil and Rep. John Peterson (R-PA) are frequent guests on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal program.

The Abercrombie Washington, DC staff surprised Neil with a cake to celebrate his 70th birthday.

Lacey Kaawaloa, winner of the 2008 Congressional Arts Competition. Lacey’s entry, entitled Take Me Back, will be displayed in the U.S. Capitol for the rest of the year.

Neil was interviewed for Olelo's (Community Television) Youth Capitol Commentary during their visit to Washington.

Lauren Yee and her family visit the Washington Office. Lisa was the 2008 Hawaii winner of the Tar Wars poster design competition,an annual tobacco-free education campaign sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Neil speaks to a group of construction workers about the importance of getting out to vote.

Neil meets with Lauren Truong, whose father Leon, a Honolulu resident, was detained by the Government of Vietnam for his democracy activism and released on Dec. 11th. Neil had communicated with both Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice trying to help resolve the problem.

Rep. Tom Cole (OK), Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle, Rep. Mary Fallin (OK), Rep. Abercrombie, and Rep. Mazie K. Hirono gathered on the "Surrender Deck" of the USS Missouri during the Dec. 7th commemoration.

On Dec. 7th, Rep. Abercrombie participated in dedication ceremonies for the U.S.S. Oklahoma Memorial on Ford Island. The memorial commemorates the 429 Navy and Marine Corps personnel who died aboard the battleship Oklahoma in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Rep. Abercrombie with Philip Choo, a student from Maryknoll High School, who is attending the National Young Leaders Conference in Washington D.C.

Rep. Abercrombie with constituents from Hawaii Catholic Charities, City and County of Honolulu and Gregory House.

Rep. Abercrombie with constituents from Agricultural Leadership Council of Hawaii.

Rep. Abercrombie with Sydney Inouye, Hawaii’s winner for "Tar Wars" poster contest, and her family.

Rep. Abercrombie with his Congressional interns, Tiana Lum-Tucker of Lihue, Kauai and Hunter Gradie of Kailua, Oahu.

Rep. Abercrombie getting his annual flu shot.

Rep. Abercrombie visiting with NYLC students from Oahu.

Neil gets briefed on marine mammal research at UH's Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology.

Neil aboard a military aircraft during September's CODEL Abercrombie to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Neil on NightTime with Andy Bumatai. Jazz singer Jimmy Borges is seated at left.

Kenory Khuy of University of Hawaii Laboratory School with her 2007 Congressional Arts Competition winning picture "Speechless".

Students from Waiakea and Hilo High Schools meet with Rep. Abercrombie in the Rayburn Room of the U.S. Capitol.

Campbell High School participants in the Close-Up Program visit Neil’s office.

Chinese Scholars participating in the East West Center's China-U.S. Faculty Exchange Program drop by the Capitol.

Rep. Abercrombie presents eight of his eleven 2007 nominees to the U.S. Military Academy, Naval Academy, Air Force Academy and Merchant Marine Academy to "A Congressional Salute," at Fort Shafter.

Neil speaks to the Maritime Trades Department, AFL-CIO annual conference. Applauding Neil’s remarks is Maritime President Mike Sacco.

Congressman Abercrombie, with First Lady Laura Bush and U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, accepts a $150,000 award on behalf of the City and County of Honolulu to develop a visitor infrastructure to showcase the historic nature of Honolulu's Chinatown through various exhibits, tours, and promotion of the area's businesses.

Rep. Abercrombie received the Congressional Leadership Award from The National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP) at the organization’s Capitol Hill Day.

National Association of Drug Court Professionals event crowd shot.

Congressman Abercrombie speaks with students from the Hongwanji Mission School during their visit to the Capitol on March 21, 2007.

Rep. Abercrombie joins Brig. Gen. Steven Hummer, Commanding General of Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Thomas Henneberry, chief operating officer of Forest City Military Communities LLC and other dignitaries in a Hawaiian groundbreaking ceremony for new military housing. The first phase of a project includes 1,175 homes in 13 neighborhoods on the base. The innovative public-private partnership approach was enacted by Abercrombie and others in Congress, and has allowed military family housing and barracks to be upgraded, refurbished and new family housing constructed on bases across the country.

Rep. Abercrombie gets briefed by Lt. Col. Flip Wilson, Commander of the 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment Wolfhounds during exercises involving the U.S. Army’s new Stryker vehicles at the Pohakuloa Training Range on the Big Island. Abercrombie chairs the House Armed Services Air and Land Forces Subcommittee.

Congressman Abercrombie with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congresswoman Mazie Hirono.

Congressman Neil Abercrombie visits with members of the National Federation of the Blind of Hawaii to discuss their legislative priorities for the 2nd Session of the 108th Congress.

Congressman Neil Abercrombie visits with Dr. Suzanne Yandow of Shriners Hospital for Children and son Garrett Shomaker to discuss research funding for Musculoskeletal Diseases in the NIH FY05 budget.

Congressman Abercrombie meets with National Youth Leadership Conference participant Minako Idei of Mid-Pac about her recent visit to Washington, D.C. Minako is the first student from Japan to participate in NYLC.

Congressman Abercrombie visits with members of the Hawaii Association of Broadcasters to discuss its legislative agenda for 2004.

Congressman Neil Abercrombie and other Members of Congress being briefed on security conditions during a May 2003 fact-finding visit to Iraq. (Press Release)

Congressman Neil Abercrombie and Major General Eric T. Olson sign public-private partnership agreement for Army housing on September 13, 2003. The groundbreaking agreement to replace and renovate 7,700 Army housing units on Oahu will create thousands of jobs and generate $6.9 billion for Hawaii's economy over a 50 year period. (Press Release)