Mazie Hirono: “On rollcall No. 479, had I been present, I would have voted ``no.''”

With Hawaii being home to 40% of the country’s endangered and threatened plant species in the country, celebrating biodiversity and promoting environmental conservation is critical to uplifting our state’s history and culture.

In functionally overturning the last enforceable section of the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court has once again put the interests of Republicans and their billionaire buddies before the voting rights of millions of Americans.

This is what authoritarians do. None of us is safe from this regime.

This is a Supreme Court majority with an ideological agenda.