I don't think the president should be giving a state of the state, State of the Union speech so that he can for 45 minutes carry on about all the great things he has done at a time when the government shut down.
Mazie Hirono: “I don't think the president should be giving a state of the state, State of the Union speech so that he can for 45…”
On the recordJanuary 16, 2019
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Hirono expresses that Trump should not deliver the State of the Union address during the shutdown.
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