WASHINGTON D C Today U S Senator Mazie K Hirono D HI urged the U S Senate to swiftly confirm Julie Su Acting Secretary for the U S Department of Labor as the country s next Secretary of Labor Su who was confirmed by the Senate to be the Depu...

WASHINGTON D C U S Senator Mazie K Hirono D HI a member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee introduced the Fairness for Servicemembers and their Families Act bipartisan bicameral bill that would help ensure life insurance packages for serv...

WASHINGTON D C U S Senator Mazie K Hirono D HI joined 21 of her Senate Democratic colleagues in a letter to the Food and Drug Administration FDA Commissioner Robert Califf urging the FDA to promptly finalize its April 28 2022 announced proposed...

WASHINGTON D C U S Senator Mazie K Hirono D HI voted to advance a bicameral resolution affirming the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment ERA which would enshrine gender equity in the U S Constitution Despite the required 38 states voting...

WASHINGTON D C Today U S Senator Mazie K Hirono D HI a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee introduced the Stop Judge Shopping Act legislation to combat judge shopping in federal courts by giving the U S District Court for the District of...

WASHINGTON D C Today as South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol marks his first visit to the United States U S Senator Mazie K Hirono D HI introduced bipartisan bicameral legislation that builds on the U S Korea Free Trade Agreement KORUS FTA and...

WASHINGTON D C Today U S Senator Mazie K Hirono D HI blocked Republicans from advancing the anti transgender Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act legislation to ban transgender women and girls from participating in sports consistent with t...

WASHINGTON D C Today U S Senators Mazie K Hirono D HI and Lisa Murkowski R AK and Representatives Ed Case D HI and Jen Kiggans R VA reintroduced the Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act legislation that would speed up the visa process...

WASHINGTON D C U S Senator Mazie K Hirono D HI a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee questioned Admiral John Aquilino Commander of the U S Indo Pacific Command INDOPACOM on the missile defense of Hawaii and the importance of the Comp...

WASHINGTON D C U S Senator Mazie K Hirono D HI joined ten of her Senate Democratic colleagues in introducing legislation to avoid default by repealing the national debt ceiling an arbitrary limit set by Congress on the amount of funding that the U...