WASHINGTON, June 3 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following statement on June 1, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), released the following statement after voting to avoid default on the national debt: "That America will pay its bills should not be questioned. And yet, MAGA Republicans not only questioned this constitutional responsibility, but engaged in hostage negotiations to massively cut government services seniors, keiki, and our communities rely on. "Today,  more

WASHINGTON, May 31 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) reintroduced the Real Education and Access for Healthy Youth Act (REAHYA) to help strengthen access to sex education and sexual health services for young adults, particularly those most impacted by barriers to sex education and access to care. Companion legislation was introduced in the House by Representatives Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Pramila Jayapa  more

WASHINGTON, June 2 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) introduced the Stop Mental Health Stigma in Our Communities Act to curb mental health stigma in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities. This introduction marks the first time that the legislation was introduced in both the House and Senate. Companion legislation was introduced in the House by Representatives Judy Chu (D-CA) and Grace Na  more

WASHINGTON, May 31 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release and letters: U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) expanded their investigation into the effects of state abortion bans on women, as the country nears the first anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The senators sent letters to five leading health care organizations representing physicians,   more

WASHINGTON, June 2 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) led U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) to introduce the Language-Inclusive Support and Transparency for Online Services (LISTOS) Act to improve multilingual large language models, automated decision-making systems, and content moderation practices online to better protect non-English speaking com  more

WASHINGTON, June 1 -- Rep. Jill Tokuda, D-Hawaii, issued the following statement on May 31, 2023: * * * Representative Jill Tokuda issued the following statement on the debt limit agreement vote: "From day one of this debate, I have said we cannot raise the debt limit on the backs of our keiki, our kupuna, and the most vulnerable. For months, Democrats have been offering a clean and swift solution, while House Republicans chose to play partisan politics. To default on our debt would be catast  more

WASHINGTON, June 3 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on June 1, 2023: U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i) released the following statement after voting on a deal to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a catastrophic default. "I voted for the deal to avoid a catastrophic default, but it should have never come to this. We have to repeal the debt ceiling. "This is not the way to run the country, and this should never happen again." In April, Schatz reintroduced le  more