WASHINGTON, June 30 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following statement on June 29, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) released the following statement on the Supreme Court's decision striking down race-based affirmative action policies at the University of North Carolina and Harvard University: "Affirmative action policies have helped colleges and universities across our country cultivate more diverse student bodies. These commonsense policies recognize that diversity  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: As states across the country continue to attack women's freedoms, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined 35 of her Senate colleagues in reintroducing the Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act. This legislation, led by Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), would block anti-choice s  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 27 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on June 26, 2023: Today, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced that Hawai'i will receive $149.5 million in new federal funding to expand high-speed internet access across the state. The new funding from the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program will be used to help build and improve broadband infrastructure across Hawai'i. "Everyone in Hawai'i should   more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, requesting an update on the Department's actions to implement President Biden's executive order on promo  more