[62], In January 2019, during the 201819 United States federal government shutdown, Hirono was one of 34 senators to sign a letter to Commissioner of Food and Drugs Scott Gottlieb recognizing the efforts of the FDA to address the effect of the government shutdown on the public health and employees while expressing alarm "that the continued shutdown will result in increasingly harmful effects on the agency's employees and the safety and security of the nation's food and medical products. ga('ads.send', { [50], In July 2022, Hirono joined in introducing the Youth Voting Rights Act, comprehensive legislation to enforce the Twenty-Sixth Amendment and expand youth access to voting. New Details About Annie Coons, Death Certificate Of Indiana Lyching Victim Finally Changed From Suicide To Homicide 100 Years Later, The Most Terrifying Tweets From Inside The Capitol During The Riots As Far-Right Mobs Stormed The Building, Senator Patrick Leahy Hospitalized Weeks Before Trump's Impeachment Trial Meet His Wife, Marcelle Pomerleau, Who Is Jeff Flake? As a result, our family had little stability or money. Author Robby Soave wrote, As Mazie Hirono and Cory Booker made clear, it is NOT OKAY to say sexual preference instead of orientation. They created America. 'I would have given you the finger.' My older brother spent all his dimes but I saved mine. Hirono talks to an aide during the confirmation hearing of FBI Director nominee Christopher Wray. She discusses the very real fear that our marriages will be undone by a conservative SCOTUS. [31], Hirono won reelection to a third term with 72% of the vote. Looking back, Hirono is grateful for the time she and her husband were not together, growing into themselves before they reconnected. Bashing Barrett, Hirono said, "Not once but twice you used the term 'sexual preferences' to describe those in the LGBTQ community." Hirono announced that she had been diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer in 2017, which had already spread to her seventh rib. I never would have been picked". "It was one of those breakups where I burned all of his pictures".