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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Oct 5, 2018

I have to say I am sick of this. I am sick of everyone who wants to rewrite the history of what happened in the Senate with the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the United States. It isn't even over yet, and they want people to believe…

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Oct 5, 2018

yesterday, we heard our colleague from Maine express the hope that his ``nomination is where the process has finally hit rock bottom.'' On this, I agree. I hope we never again reach a place where women are as disrespected, ignored, and…

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Oct 4, 2018

tomorrow we will cast a very important vote on whether to end debate on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Should he be confirmed to this position of awesome…

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Oct 4, 2018

Judge Kavanaugh also tried to convince us that while he ``liked beer,'' he was basically a choir boy--interested in nothing more than sports, school, and service projects. This carefully painted image has been directly contradicted by…

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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Oct 2, 2018

I don't understand what you said. And I don't hear a sense of urgency at all as it relates to this issue.

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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Oct 2, 2018

Why is it not the Federal Communication Commission's job, plenty of funding, and plenty of expertise--to get it right the first time.

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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Oct 2, 2018

FCC overstates broadband access on tribal lands, does not have a formal process to obtain tribal input.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Oct 1, 2018

For people who have been stonewalling the investigation from day one, I think it's pretty rich for them to say that we are trying to interfere with a process that we have been calling for.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Oct 1, 2018

I think it's really important at this point to be as transparent as possible.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Oct 1, 2018

last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh about Dr. Ford's account of an attack on her by Judge Kavanaugh and a friend when they were all teenagers. Dr. Ford…

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Oct 1, 2018

We can always count on the President to go down to the lowest common denominator, mock people, call people names, attack them. This is what he does. And the thing that Dr. Ford did remember, with 100% recollection, was that it was Brett…

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Oct 1, 2018

No. Because that really flows from total mistrust of women. They must think that we all sit around making up stories about them.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Oct 1, 2018

They definitely need to interview Judge Kavanaugh, because they haven't interviewed him on these particular reports.

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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Oct 1, 2018

But in this instance, it seems like their size is a problem.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Sep 28, 2018

these are the remarks I would have given at this morning's Judiciary Committee markup after the perfunctory and dismissive way the chairman treated the minority members of the Judiciary Committee. I walked out in protest. Here are the…

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Sep 28, 2018

In addition, Robert Carlson, president of the American Bar Association, the ABA, issued a letter urging the Judiciary Committee of the Senate to not vote on Judge Kavanaugh's nomination until there is an FBI investigation into Dr. Ford's…

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