Mazie Hirono: “The legislature of the State of Hawaii...has time and again passed resolutions in support of this legislation.”

I happen to be the only naturalized citizen sitting on this committee, and I am horrified by the implication that naturalized citizens basically get second-class citizenship.

The passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a major turning point in our country that finally gave many previously excluded people of color real access to the polls.

We have a President who tried to totally eliminate the Department of Education.

This bill will take food assistance--the literal means by which some people are able to put nutritious food on the table--away from them.