Mazie K. Hirono

The recovery of Maui, as well as on the Big Island, will take time and resources, and we need to have a continuing commitment.

The next Farm Bill very much reflects the commitment to the small farmers that we have.

I think that we need to recognize how important it is for flexibility for USDA.

We need to do a heck of a lot better and there are a number of bills that would enable the affordable access to childcare, and I think that's something that we need to do for the women in our country and I say about time.

The only three countries that do worse than us in terms of supporting childcare affordability and availability, Ireland, Costa Rica, and Turkey.

I think that's why some of the funding that we provided for this purpose, especially for rural areas, through the Infrastructure Bill and others, I think that's going to be really critical to enable entrepreneurs in the rural areas of our…

I have visited the Women's Business Center in Honolulu and I know that it makes a really big difference.

Is there anything more that Congress can do to enable small businesses, especially women-owned businesses, to have access to capital?

I think that the idea of expanding and diversifying, it runs across all gamuts, including lawyers, you know, to be able to know a product when they see it.

Whatever you can do to get across to women in our country, girls in our country, that they can invent things and that they can be part of a huge economic--make a huge economic difference to our country.

Unleashing our country's full potential is also why last Congress I worked with Senators Tillis, Coons, and other colleagues to introduce the IDEA Act.

International trade, at its fundamental core, is about fairness.

I think we have a very, very well-qualified panel today.

I believe that everyone deserves representation in our legal system.

Congratulations on your nominations.

So, if you were to allow your works to be used to train, you would--do you think that you would negotiate--if there was a law that required compensation, then that compensation negotiation should be left to you and the entity such as Mr…

So basically, you don't pay for the data that you put into your--to train your model.

Whenever the idea of negotiating licenses is raised, people express concerns about how complex it would be.

I think it is really important that the naturalization ceremonies... have been very, very touching to see all these people who come to our country.

I think I--relating to the fact that our Supreme Court does not have a code of ethics, I won't put you on the spot with that one, but there are some of us here who consider that very important.

I think things like the Equality Act are necessary to protect these trans people from discrimination, because we have the right--I have the right as a woman, just as Ms. Gaines has the right as a woman, to compete in women's sports.

There are huge, huge differences in so-called male sports and the support that's given to male sports and so-called male athletes versus women's sports.

I think we must do more to ensure that the trans community and the LGBTQ+ community, more broadly, can live as their authentic selves, free from the threat of and real violence or discrimination.

I think the pecuniary interest is really the most objective way that you can define a conflict.

I think availing themselves of the courts if they do not have confidence in the objectivity and fairness of the courts, I think that is a real concern.