HONOLULU, HI – Today, Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Small Business Committee, hosted U.S. Small Business Administration Administrator Isabella Guzman for a tour of organizations supporting small businesses and small businesses on Oahu. During the day-long event, Senator Hirono and Administrator Guzman visited centers...
HONOLULU, HI – Today, Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) convened a working group of local reproductive leaders and health care experts to discuss reproductive freedom in Hawaii and across the country. The conversation was a follow-up to a roundtable Senator Hirono previously hosted at the beginning of July shortly after the far-right majority on...
HONOLULU, HI – Today, Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, toured TheBus Electric Fleet Charging Station with leaders from the City and County of Honolulu Department of Transportation Services (DTS) and Oahu Transit Services to highlight federal investments in Hawaii’s clean energy...
HONOLULU, HI – Today, Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, met with local business owners and military leaders, and delivered remarks at the 2022 Daniel K. Akaka American Logistics Association (ALA) Hawaii Food Show & Conference. The ALA Hawaii Food Show features many products made in Hawaii,...
HONOLULU, HI –Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) visited her alma mater, Kaimuki High School, to attend the school’s first “HA: Breath of Kaimuki” festival and meet students and staff. The festival was a celebration of the people, history, art, music, and cultures of Cambodia, Palau, and Hawaii.
“As a proud Kaimuki...
HONOLULU, HI – Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) toured the facilities of local businesses in West Oahu, starting with MA'O Farms in Waianae, followed by Aloha Shoyu in Kapolei.
The Senator began her day with a visit to the MA'O Farms Waianae Community Post-Harvest Processing Facility, where she toured the current facility and spoke with staff...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) and Representative Kaiali'i Kahele (D-HI), along with Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Tina Smith (D-MN), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Representatives Ed Case (D-HI) and Teresa Leger Fernández (D-NM)...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), voted to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, landmark legislation to lower costs for families by investing billions in renewable energy, allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, and requiring wealthy corporations to...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pressed FBI Director Christopher Wray on what the Bureau is doing to protect the Native Hawaiian community from sexual exploitation at a full Judiciary Committee hearing. During the hearing, Senator Hirono highlighted how sexual exploitation...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an effort to restore balance and fairness to the nation’s highest court, Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Brian Schatz (D-HI) introduced the Supreme Court Tenure Establishment and Retirement...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) joined Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) in sending a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) urging concrete actions the Department can take to help meet President Biden’s goal of protecting and expanding access to medication...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, joined Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Susan Collins (R-ME), and 17 of their Senate colleagues in introducing the bipartisan Equal Access to Contraception for Veterans Act to eliminate copayments for contraception covered by the Department...
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...