Tag: Mazie Hirono

Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) said her message to men in the United States is to "just shut up and step up. Do the right thing," following the sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

An informal council of President Trump's friends is exerting sweeping influence over the US Department of Veterans Affairs, according to ProPublica.

President Trump threatened on Sunday to shut down the federal government if the Democrats refuse to back his administration's proposed changes to immigration laws. Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, says Trump could have had border wall funding already. » Subscribe to…

Sen. Mazie Hirono, Democrat from Hawaii, reacts to news of some Democrats in Congress and candidates running in 2018 Midterms calling for an end to ICE as a whole: ICE 'We should look at what kind of enforcement processes ICE…

Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) joins MTP Daily to discuss the Supreme Court upholding Trump’s travel ban and its implications on presidential power. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the premier destination for in-depth analysis of daily headlines, insightful…

It was a show designed to get Zuckerberg off the hook after only a few hours in Washington DC. Each senator was given less than five minutes for questions. We shouldn’t be begging for Facebook’s endorsement of laws, or for Mark Zuckerberg’s promises of self-regulation The worst moments of the hearing for us, as citizens, were when senators asked if Zuckerberg would support legislation that would regulate Facebook. Facebook is a known behemoth corporate monopoly. We shouldn’t be begging for Facebook’s endorsement of laws, or for Mark Zuckerberg’s promises of self-regulation. Some of the hearing seemed designed to figure out whether Zuckerberg is a good or bad man, or whether he has a good or bad – or bizarre – political philosophy. That doesn’t make him that interesting as the CEO of a corporate monopoly; it makes him a run-of-the-mill robber baron. There is so much we don’t know about Facebook. Now that the initial show trial is done, we need the real deal, one where no senator gets cut off after a few minutes. The real hearing would allow for unlimited questions from each of our senators, who represent millions of people.