Mazie Hirono actually said...

"That is not an accurate reflection of the support that this legislation of the Native Hawaiians have in Hawaii."

"They are still members of the United States. They are still citizens of the United States with all the rights and privileges of citizens of the United States."

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

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