Mazie Hirono

Votes Cast

25

Yea Rate

24.0%

Bills Sponsored

10

Missed Votes

0.0%

Mazie Hirono is Hawaii's senior Democratic senator, the first Asian-American woman elected to the Senate, serving her third term in the chamber.

Mazie Keiko Hirono is the senior U.S. Senator from Hawaii, a Democrat first elected to the Senate in 2012 and re-elected in 2018 and 2024. Born in Fukushima, Japan, and brought to Hawaii as a child by her mother, Hirono became a U.S. citizen as a teenager and graduated from the University of Hawaii and Georgetown Law. She served in the Hawaii State House, as Hawaii's lieutenant governor from 1994 to 2002, and for three terms in the U.S. House before entering the Senate. Hirono is the first Asian-American woman and the first Buddhist to serve in the U.S. Senate. In the 119th Congress, she serves on the Judiciary, Armed Services, Energy and Natural Resources, and Small Business and Entrepreneurship committees, and chairs the Readiness and Management Support Subcommittee of Armed Services. She has focused on immigration, Asian American Pacific Islander civil rights, defense facilities in the Indo-Pacific, and native Hawaiian issues.