On the recordMarch 23, 2022
I did not want the fact that women have had to endure -- basically, women -- of this kind of assault and harassment since, as I called -- put it, time immemorial, I did not want that swept under the rug.
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msnbc.comMazie Hirono: “I did not want the fact that women have had to endure -- basically, women -- of this kind of assault and harassment…”
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