Mazie Hirono

I am a big supporter of internships and fellowship programs to really give people the experience within government.

I applaud New York for their approach.

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.

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

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

These tech platforms can currently just hide behind Section 230.

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…

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.

Will you have that commitment?

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.

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

The current antitrust laws have not been particularly effective in regulating digital platforms.

Nobody predicted that we would have these kinds of hugely powerful digital platforms that millions of people use.

I commend the EU for its decision to reduce its dependence on Russian oil and to lend a lot more support for renewables.

I ask the following two foundational questions of every witness who comes before any of the Committees on which I sit.

I suggest he get his vision checked.

Although I arrived late to this hearing and I apologize for that, but I had a conflict.

I think one of the concerns, though, is that the wholesale elimination of Section 230, which--I mean, I do support, you know, holding these platforms responsible for the kind of hugely harmful content, but it does get into First Amendment…

It is very clear that we need to do more, and I think if we present a united front in the need for more reimbursements...

I certainly support the idea of making COFA's FSM and Micronesian brothers and sisters eligible for Medicaid.

It is going to take some work, I think, for us to work through some of the visa issues that you have to enable you to attract more workers.

Same for Hawaii. So the amounts that come to you and to Hawaii and other places are very short of what is expended to take care of our friends.

We would like to have the Medicare reimbursement schedule changed for states like Hawaii.

I plan to reintroduce the Compact-Impact Fairness Act, which would restore COFA citizens' access to all federal public benefits.

We put in a lot of money to enable states like Hawaii to get on with moving away from dependence on fossil fuel.