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On the recordJanuary 16, 2019
Why can't he use it to help 800,000 people who are working women, many of them, without paychecks?
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Mazie Hirono
Democratic · Hawaii

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Hirono questions McConnell's inaction during the shutdown affecting federal workers.

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