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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Sep 3, 2018

By what right, by what authority can Mr. Burck possibly designate a document as 'committee confidential'?

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Sep 3, 2018

Judge Kavanaugh, why do you rarely dissent on behalf of consumers, workers, or the powerless?

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Sep 3, 2018

Your view is that Native Hawaiians do not deserve protections as indigenous people under the Constitution.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Sep 3, 2018

the Janus decision is important here because it shows your nomination fits in a larger campaign that groups like the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation have been waging for decades.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Sep 3, 2018

Perhaps if all those situations or those processes had been in place over the 30 years that Judge Kozinski was engaging in this kind of behavior, maybe he would have stopped, but he did not.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Sep 3, 2018

A lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, of someone who will provide the fifth vote on issues impacting the lives of every working American, is a battle worth fighting.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Sep 3, 2018

They do not have their own government. They do not have their own elected leaders. They do not live on reservations or in territorial enclaves. They do not even live together in Hawaii.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Sep 3, 2018

Your failure to do so would reflect a fundamental mistrust of the American people.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Sep 3, 2018

Are credibility, character, and candor of a nominee things for us to consider in your job interview?

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Sep 3, 2018

That is unprecedented. That is not regular order.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Sep 3, 2018

This moment has become a crucible. It's a test of our progress. Do we start by believing victims of sexual assault and treating them with dignity or don't we?

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Sep 3, 2018

there are hundreds and hundreds of cases that States have passed that limit the woman's right to choose.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Sep 3, 2018

President Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh to break the tie.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Sep 3, 2018

the Supreme Court, as Justice Kagan put it, has been 'weaponizing the First Amendment in a way that unleashes judges now and in the future to intervene in economic and regulatory policy.'

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

I was necessarily absent for votes on August 23 and August 27 so I could return to Hawaii to lend my support to the State and Federal preparations for and response to the severe weather conditions caused by Hurricane Lane. I rise today in…

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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Aug 28, 2018

Senator McCain may have represented the people of Arizona, but in doing so, he changed the world. His family legacy and leadership are, actually, partly rooted in the Pacific. He met his wife, Cindy, in Honolulu, and generations of McCains…

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