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...He thanked Democrats for unifying the Republican Party.... 

...internet service providers sued Vermont on Thursday in an effort to overturn its recently enacted net neutrality rules....

...Palestinians and white nationalists are behind Gabbard's effort to take the mantle of the Sanders campaign.... 

...Trump 2020 Advisory Board member Tony Shaffer met with the congresswoman in her office this April....

... Hawaii Lowest Tax Fairness and Lowest Political Engagement ....

...With one statewide district, Hawaii ranks 51st for 'opportunity and competition'....

...Their data set ranges from identity-theft complaints per capita to average loss amount due to fraud....

...Weekly Update From GovTrack.us....

... Change in Uninsured Rate Between 2010 & 2017 -4.04% ....

...In November 2011, Arnold Davis filed a law suit against Guam’s government, arguing that the plebiscite election discriminated against him and other non-native inhabitants....

...The attorneys general from California, Florida, Hawaii, Mississippi, and Washington participated in the settlement....

...the case is expected to reach the Supreme Court, where the matter may be finally settled....

...introduced with relatively little public notice in September 2017, the OFF Fossil Fuels for a Better Future Act (OFF Act), is gaining support from Democrat political candidates across the nation....

...“This is the kind of activism that occurs and people make their own decisions. If they violate the law, then they have to account for that.”....

...US metro areas with the best and worst job markets....

...The string of islands in the Pacific Ocean obviously have an economy that functions much differently than the other 49 states....

...Harvard University researchers find that the transition to wind or solar power in the U.S. would require five to 20 times more land than previously thought, and, if such large-scale wind farms were built, would warm average surface temperatures over the continental U.S. by 0.24 degrees Celsius....

...Another journal, specializing in “feminist geography,” published a paper online in May about how dog parks are “petri dishes for canine ‘rape culture.’”....

...New glyphosate study suggesting danger to honeybee microbiota is detailed, sophisticated—and wrong....

...Hirono made the comments after MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow opined Wednesday that “Democrats don’t pressure the FBI the way that Republicans do.”....

...2018’s Best & Worst Cities for People with Disabilities....

...WalletHub compared 515 cities of varying population sizes based on 15 key measures of both growth and decline over a period of seven years....

...For Democrats, it’s always “Believe Women,” unless....

...Hirono is “particularly vulnerable to right-wing attacks” because of her focus on the Kavanaugh allegations, the email said....

...24 key metrics that represent financial savvy — or lack thereof....

...On Monday, gun-grabber special interests filed “friend of the court” briefs and declarations to argue against the right to bear arms in the case of Young v. Hawaii, challenging the state’s effective ban on open carry by the whole people....

...The CLC sent a letter to Hatch Act Unit Chief Ana Galindo-Marrone asking her office to look at whether Benton's attendance as a speaker at a Hawaii Republican Party fundraiser on Friday was illegal....

...Please keep putting this Senator Hir-Oh-NO-she-didn't-just-say-that-yes-she-did on TV every single day from now until the midterms....

...sometimes you just have to laugh....

...Senator Mazie Hirono today poses as a brave feminist cultural warrior, but when it really counted in her own backyard in Hawaii, she was AWOL....

...Weekly Update from GovTrack.us September 23, 2018....

...Although there has been extensive discussion regarding whether Aloha Poke Co.’s actions are morally justified, there has been little, if any, serious analysis as to whether its position is legally valid....

...New app will allow Hawaii students to anonymously report bullying....

...Hirono's Democratic colleague in the Senate, Tom Carper (Del.), who has admitted to punching his wife hard enough to give her a black eye, appears to be getting a pass from Hirono....

...One calls Tulsi Gabbard ‘the hottest member of Congress on either side of the aisle.’ And it’s part of a series of pages from four companies traced to one Democratic law firm....

...Hirono claimed Wednesday that the death threats that have allegedly been made against Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford are “witness tampering”....

...an en banc hearing of the Ninth involves 11 judges chosen at random, out of the 23 or 24 judges (depending on confirmation hearings) on the Ninth Circuit....

...Senator Hirono says "I just want to say to the men of this country: Just shut up….”

...Hawaii’s governor signed a 100 percent mandate in 2015, making it the first state in the country to require its entire energy mix to originate from renewables. California passed a similar bill in August....

...“Politics runs on money. Billions of dollars."....

...the average debt in Hawaii is a whopping $869,250....

...Hawaii has the nation’s worst property rights record followed closely by California....

...in 1969 the only places in America where housing cost more than three times incomes were Hawaii and Stamford, Connecticut. I don’t know why Stamford was on the list, but Hawaii had passed legislation strictly regulating where people could build homes in 1961....

... ripping a “hole in the fabric of reality” ....

...Hawaii ranks as happiest state despite least sleep, study finds....

... Hawaii ranks 27th ....

...Pearl City also has the 2nd lowest divorce rate and the 3rd-lowest percentage of families in poverty....  

...“I cannot count how many homeowners told me that their insurance agents told them to not worry about their lava exclusion, because everyone knows that fires burn houses during an eruption”....

...GovTrack Update for Sep. 1....

...“I’m here to change your mind,” said Andria Tupola, Republican nominee for Hawaii governor....