Mazie Hirono actually said...

"Would you support Parent Academies to help parents use the information you're providing?"

"With your help, it will."

"It is not a foreign aid program and people make that mistake, that somehow the East-West Center is an arm of our foreign aid."

"I am here to ask for your support of the East-West Center, which, although located in Hawaii, has international programs and, in fact, they have programs in most of the Members' States."