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Mazie Hirono

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Mazie Keiko Hirono is an American attorney and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Hawaii since January 3, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 4, 2007, to January 3, 2013. Hirono is known for her advocacy on issues such as education, healthcare, and civil rights, often emphasizing the importance of public education and human rights in her public statements.

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Mar 22, 2023

We are going to need a highly trained--again for you, Mr. Kumar--a trained workforce to help defend the critical infrastructure against these kinds of attacks.

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Mar 14, 2023

I agree with you. And the statistics I pointed to in Hawaii, where we have some of the strictest gun safety laws--and there is a cause and effect as to the use of guns in Hawaii in violent situations.

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Mar 14, 2023

In 2020, Hawaii had the lowest gun death rates and the third-lowest rate of gun ownership in the entire country.

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Mar 14, 2023

I applaud New York for their approach.

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Mar 8, 2023

I rise today, on International Women's Day, to urge my Republican colleagues to join us in protecting our individual rights and freedoms and to support the Women's Health Protection Act. You have heard from a lot of us on the floor today…

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Mar 7, 2023

I introduced My Body, My Data Act to help individuals protect private sexual health data.

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Mar 7, 2023

Well, when you talk about not focusing on certain types of bad behaviors, but to look at the sort of the general problem with Section 230, so how would you make the kind of changes that you're talking about to protect vulnerable…

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Mar 7, 2023

I am glad that we now have this opportunity to do the right thing because it is really crazy that at a time when small businesses are in need of the support of the SBA that this position has been vacant for many years.

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Mar 7, 2023

It's very clear that we want to make changes to Section 230, but there are always unintended consequences whenever we attempt to do that.

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Mar 7, 2023

These tech platforms can currently just hide behind Section 230.

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Mar 6, 2023

It's been really challenging to do anything to regulate these very powerful digital platforms.

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