Speeches & Testimony

Madam Speaker:

I rise today to give voice not just to the 80% of my district whose heritage lies in Asia and the Pacific, but to all I represent.

That we join with our brothers and sisters across our country in solidarity; that hate against any of us based on our race, our ethnicity, our heritage, is hate against us all; that this must end, here, now.

I rise today to recognize my Senator, Mazie Hirono, a pioneer in her own right, who brought this measure to us in both anger and faith.

I rise today for my granddaughter, two-year-old Cadence Masako Ansdell, and for millions like her for whom we must make this choice here, today: that when they come of age, they will know only the harsh lessons of their past and not the tragic reality of their present.

I rise for us all.