Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, voted to pass the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act, comprehensive, bipartisan legislation to expand VA health care for veterans with health conditions related to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono, joined Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Alex Padilla (D-CA), and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) in introducing the Let Doctors Provide Reproductive Health Care Act to protect doctors against...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono, member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA), along with 27 of their Senate Democratic colleagues, in calling on the Biden Administration to work urgently to increase...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Amid troop recruitment and retention challenges, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, urged the Department of Defense (DOD) to consider providing family planning options, including cryopreservation. In a letter sent today to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Hirono highlights...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today announced the inclusion of $1 billion in funding for the defueling and closure of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in the Fiscal Year 2023 Department of Defense spending bill released today by the Senate Appropriations Committee....

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) led 23 of their colleagues in calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to take immediate administrative action to offer abortions and all abortion-related services to veterans and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) called on her Republican colleagues to protect the right to contraception in a speech on the Senate floor. The Right to Contraception Act, legislation she introduced last week with Senators Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), would codify the fundamental and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Tina Smith (D-MN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), introduced the Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act, which would repeal the 1973 Helms Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act to ensure that U.S. foreign assistance may be used to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) voted to pass landmark legislation to invest in American innovation and strengthen domestic supply chains. The bipartisan Chips and Science Act includes historic investment in scientific research and development, funding to support Hawaii’s transition to renewable energy, and tens...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Patty Murray (D-WA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) announced their effort to pass the Right to Contraception Act this week in the Senate, following passage of companion legislation in the House of Representatives last week. Senator Hirono...

WASHINGTON, D.C. –U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) urged President Biden to address the specific barriers to accessing and affording formula that participants in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program and other members of underserved communities face. In a letter to the President, Senator Hirono highlighted the fact that, even as...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) announced that Hawaii will receive $20 million in additional assistance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to keep keiki fed. The funding, some of which was authorized in the Keeping Kids Fed Act that Senator Hirono helped pass in both the House and Senate before it was...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) and Representative Ted Deutch (D-FL) re-introduced the Protecting and Preserving Social Security Act, legislation that would strengthen Social Security’s financial state and ensure that seniors continue to benefit from the programs they have paid into throughout their...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) urged the Senate to advance legislation to provide additional, guaranteed funding for the Title X Family Planning Program in a speech on the Senate floor. The Expanding Access to Family Planning Act, legislation she introduced with colleagues earlier this week, would protect access to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, emphasized the need to restrict widespread civilian access to military-style assault weapons amid the nation’s gun violence epidemic at a full Judiciary Committee hearing. During the hearing, Senator Hirono condemned the right-wing...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined Senators Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) in introducing the Right to Contraception Act. This legislation, backed by over half of the Senate Democratic caucus, would codify the fundamental and constitutional right to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. –U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) joined Senators Tina Smith (D-MN), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), along with 32 Democratic colleagues in the Senate, in introducing the Expanding Access to Family Planning Act. The bill would protect access to critical reproductive health care services—like birth...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), joined Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and 21 of their colleagues in introducing the Tax Filing Simplification Act of 2022. This legislation would simplify the tax filing process for millions of Americans, saving them hours and hundreds of dollars. Along with lowering costs and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono, member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee (SVAC), joined Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and 40 of their Senate Democratic colleagues in sending a letter to Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough requesting answers and speedy action to ensure same-sex...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) in introducing the Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act of 2022. The bill clarifies that it is illegal for anti-choice...