The race to fill the seat of retiring Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI) has been called, and Democratic Senate Candidate Mazie Hiron has been declared... full story ![]()
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) has a problem with the Senate's sweeping immigration overhaul proposal: it "disadvantages women." In a conversation with The Washington Post's Brook Silva-Braga on The Fold, the freshman senator decried the bill for moving immigration policy to a two-tiered system that reduces people to points. Awarding foreigners for their level of education or...
washingtonpost.com (7 hours ago)
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) has a problem with the Senate's sweeping immigration reform proposal: it "disadvantages women." In a conversation with The Washington Post's Brook Silva-Braga on The Fold, the freshman senator decried the bill for moving immigration policy to a two-tiered system that reduces people to points. Awarding foreigners for their level of education or...
washingtonpost.com (8 hours ago)

For all the soothing words she heard from fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii never had a chance to win a relatively modest change to far-reaching immigration legislation.
yahoo.com (25 days ago)
For all the soothing words she heard from fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii never had a chance to win a relatively modest change to far-reaching immigration legislation.
miamiherald.com (25 days ago)
WASHINGTON -- For all the soothing words she heard from fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Mazie Hirono, of Hawaii, never had a chance to win a relatively modest change to far-reaching immigration legislation.
goerie.com (24 days ago)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For all the soothing words she heard from fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii never had a chance to win a relatively modest change to far-reaching immigration legislation....
ap.org (25 days ago)

WASHINGTON (AP) - Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono (may-ZEE' hee-ROH'-noh) heard a lot of soothing words from fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, but she never had a chance to win a relatively modest change to far-reaching immigration legislation.
yahoo.com (25 days ago)

The FBI has admitted it sometimes uses aerial surveillance drones over US soil, and suggested further political debate and legislation to govern their domestic use may be necessary. Speaking in a hearing mainly about telephone data collection, the bureau's director, Robert Mueller, said it used drones to aid its investigations in a "very, very minimal way, very seldom"....
guardian.co.uk (10 hours ago)
U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa of Hawaii says she plans to run against fellow Democrat and incumbent U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz in 2014, setting up a primary battle between two of the state's four federal lawmakers.
miamiherald.com (1 month and 17 days ago)

A top state Democrat said tonight he believes Rep. Rush Holt (D-12th Dist.) is likely to get in the primary race for U.S. Senate.
nj.com (15 days ago)
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