Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pressed FBI Director Christopher Wray on what the Bureau is doing to protect the Native Hawaiian community from sexual exploitation at a full Judiciary Committee hearing. During the hearing, Senator Hirono highlighted how sexual exploitation...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an effort to restore balance and fairness to the nation’s highest court, Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Brian Schatz (D-HI) introduced the Supreme Court Tenure Establishment and Retirement...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) joined Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) in sending a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) urging concrete actions the Department can take to help meet President Biden’s goal of protecting and expanding access to medication...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, joined Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Susan Collins (R-ME), and 17 of their Senate colleagues in introducing the bipartisan Equal Access to Contraception for Veterans Act to eliminate copayments for contraception covered by the Department...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, voted to pass the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act, comprehensive, bipartisan legislation to expand VA health care for veterans with health conditions related to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono, joined Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Alex Padilla (D-CA), and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) in introducing the Let Doctors Provide Reproductive Health Care Act to protect doctors against...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono, member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA), along with 27 of their Senate Democratic colleagues, in calling on the Biden Administration to work urgently to increase...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Amid troop recruitment and retention challenges, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, urged the Department of Defense (DOD) to consider providing family planning options, including cryopreservation. In a letter sent today to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Hirono highlights...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today announced the inclusion of $1 billion in funding for the defueling and closure of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in the Fiscal Year 2023 Department of Defense spending bill released today by the Senate Appropriations Committee....

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) led 23 of their colleagues in calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to take immediate administrative action to offer abortions and all abortion-related services to veterans and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) called on her Republican colleagues to protect the right to contraception in a speech on the Senate floor. The Right to Contraception Act, legislation she introduced last week with Senators Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), would codify the fundamental and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Tina Smith (D-MN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), introduced the Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act, which would repeal the 1973 Helms Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act to ensure that U.S. foreign assistance may be used to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) voted to pass landmark legislation to invest in American innovation and strengthen domestic supply chains. The bipartisan Chips and Science Act includes historic investment in scientific research and development, funding to support Hawaii’s transition to renewable energy, and tens...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Patty Murray (D-WA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) announced their effort to pass the Right to Contraception Act this week in the Senate, following passage of companion legislation in the House of Representatives last week. Senator Hirono...

WASHINGTON, D.C. –U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) urged President Biden to address the specific barriers to accessing and affording formula that participants in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program and other members of underserved communities face. In a letter to the President, Senator Hirono highlighted the fact that, even as...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) announced that Hawaii will receive $20 million in additional assistance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to keep keiki fed. The funding, some of which was authorized in the Keeping Kids Fed Act that Senator Hirono helped pass in both the House and Senate before it was...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) and Representative Ted Deutch (D-FL) re-introduced the Protecting and Preserving Social Security Act, legislation that would strengthen Social Security’s financial state and ensure that seniors continue to benefit from the programs they have paid into throughout their...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) urged the Senate to advance legislation to provide additional, guaranteed funding for the Title X Family Planning Program in a speech on the Senate floor. The Expanding Access to Family Planning Act, legislation she introduced with colleagues earlier this week, would protect access to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, emphasized the need to restrict widespread civilian access to military-style assault weapons amid the nation’s gun violence epidemic at a full Judiciary Committee hearing. During the hearing, Senator Hirono condemned the right-wing...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined Senators Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) in introducing the Right to Contraception Act. This legislation, backed by over half of the Senate Democratic caucus, would codify the fundamental and constitutional right to...