Mazie Hirono actually said...

All of those kinds of issues, anything that would allow Native Hawaiians to not pay state taxes would have to be agreed to by the State of H...

the Native Hawaiian people are an indigenous people this is not race-based legislation.

Native Hawaiians were not constituted as tribes as most of us I think understand tribes, but they were a separate nation.

We must ensure that the voices of Native Hawaiians are heard in Congress.