Mazie Hirono actually said...

"I urge the Committee to authorize robust funding for programs that have proven to be successful in strengthening our local communities."

"Continuing to adequately fund the programs that mean the most to these communities is vitally important to our long-term success."

"I think, as I mentioned, the hundreds of our local leaders who have converged in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, and they visited all of their Members of Congress, bipartisan, they were to a per..."

"Crafting the congressional budget resolution is a statement of our national priorities."