Mazie Hirono actually said...

"He won’t be able to move on any of those areas unless the Republicans support us."

"I hope that you can provide this Committee with some approaches that we can take, funding or programmatic, to deal with the backlog and the other issues you just mentioned."

"leadership does make a difference and it is important that we support the president in putting together the team he needs."

"the Department's mission takes on outsized importance."