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MEDIA RELEASE Congresswoman Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) Wednesday voted in support of the Jobs for Main Street Act, H.R. 2847, legislation that will redirect the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds from Wall Street to create and save urgently needed American jobs. The bill provides $75 billion in targeted investments for highways and transit, school […]

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Congresswoman Mazie Hirono has issued the following statement: Aloha, Have you looked at your latest credit card statement? Have you noticed a sharp increase in your interest rate or been hit by unreasonable fees? Unfair and deceptive practices by credit card companies remain widespread in the market and continue to plague struggling consumers. I have […]

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Rep. Mazie Hirono has issued the following statement: Aloha, Last Friday was the first of 17 teacher furlough days Hawaii’s public schools will face through the end of the regular school year. In a letter to the editor (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Oct. 6), I shared our community’s concern over the negative impact these furlough days have […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Congresswoman Mazie K. Hirono has announced the awarding of $1,440,002 in U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant  funding to support a number of programs on the neighbor islands ranging from the development of healthy agricultural and culinary programs to the supporting of Native Hawaiian language television broadcasts. The federal funding will […]

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