Senator Mazie K Hirono released the following statement on Representative Mark Takai s announcement that he will not seek reelection Mark has served our state and our country honorably as a public servant elected official and a Lieutenant Col...

Senator Mazie K Hirono today met with Judge Merrick Garland nominee for the Supreme Court Senator Hirono also called on her Republican colleagues to do their job and hold a hearing to consider Judge Garland s nomination Judge Garland s charac...

U S Mazie Hirono met with Judge Merrick Garland on Wednesday and said that her Republican colleagues should do their job and hold a hearing on the high court nominee Judge Garland s character and record of judicial service are impressive and ...

WASHINGTON D C Senator Mazie K Hirono today voted in support of more than 1 billion in emergency funding to fight the Zika virus The Senate advanced a 1 1 billion bipartisan compromise amendment to the appropriations bill currently being debated on t...

A vote on emergency funding to fight the spread of the Zika virus was taken on Tuesday morning in the United States Senate Senator Brian Schatz a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Mazie Hirono both said they voted to advance 1 ...

Elected officials and Asian American community leaders including U S Sen Mazie Hirono are denouncing a Republican congressman s use of a derogatory term to describe Japanese individuals According to an MSNBC report Rep Peter King R NY used ...

Senator Mazie K Hirono today announced that Hawaiian Airlines was awarded a direct route from Haneda Airport in Tokyo to Kona International Airport While the flight route is approved flights must still stop on Oahu until a permanent Customs and Border P...

Senator Mazie K Hirono a member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services and Ranking Member of the Seapower Subcommittee voted to approve the National Defense Authorization Act NDAA for Fiscal Year 2017 FY17 sending the bill to the full Senate for ...

After fighting poison pill amendments on the Senate floor Senator Mazie K Hirono Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power today voted to support the Fiscal Year 2017 Energy and Water Appropriations Act ...

Senator Mazie Hirono voted on Thursday morning in support of the Fiscal Year 2017 Energy and Water Appropriations Act The appropriations fund the activities of the United States Department of Energy and the United States Army Corps of Engineers ...