At a raucous hearing on Capitol Hill Monday a U S senator who is fighting Stage IV kidney cancer gave an impassioned plea to her colleagues to reject Republican attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act saying health care is not a commodity that can b...
For Senator Mazie Hirono D Hawaii healthcare policy isn t an abstract issue It s a very real reality A few months ago she was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer which is why I wasn t surprised to see her name pop up as one of the testifiers on the l...
WASHINGTON D C Senator Mazie K Hirono today testified against the latest iteration of Trumpcare at a Senate Finance Committee hearing In the first and only hearing Republicans would allow on the proposal Senator Hirono called on her colleagues to show...
HONOLULU Senator Mazie K Hirono called on Filipino World War II veterans and their families to register to be recognized as collective awardees of the Congressional Gold Medal one of Congress highest civilian honors
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WASHINGTON D C Senator Mazie K Hirono today announced that the State of Hawaii will receive over 2 7 million in funding from the U S Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration to improve veterans cemeteries on Maui Hawaii Isla...
WASHINGTON D C Senator Mazie K Hirono is currently accepting applications from Hawaii students who seek a military service academy nomination Each year Senator Hirono nominates Hawaii students to the Air Force Academy U S Military Academy Naval A...
Hawaii U S Senator Mazie Hirono questioned top Navy officials Tuesday about the factors leading to the recent collision involving ships in the Seventh Fleet This year four Navy Ships were involved in incidents Two the U S S Fitzgerald and the U S S McC...
WASHNGTON D C Senator Mazie K Hirono D Hawaii led 10 Senate Democrats in calling on President Trump to fill the vacancies for U S Ambassador to South Korea officially known as the Republic of Korea ROK Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and ...
WASHINGTON D C Senator Mazie K Hirono questioned top Navy officials about the factors that contributed to recent collisions and serious incidents involving ships in the Seventh Fleet In 2017 four Navy ships were involved in incidents including two ma...
WASHINGTON D C Senator Mazie K Hirono a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee added provisions to the National Defense Authorization Act NDAA that direct the Department of Defense to evaluate additional steps that can be taken to protect Haw...