Democratic Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono was the only lawmaker on the Senate's Veterans’ Affairs Committee to oppose the confirmation of President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of the ...

The panel voted 18-1, with the lone “no” vote coming from Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), who said Collins’s plans for the VA were “not in line” with what she believed was right for ...

The Senate confirmed former Rep. Doug Collins to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs on Tuesday. Collins scored one of the widest bipartisan votes of any Trump Cabinet nominee so far: 77 to 23.

The vote was 83-13. Collins will proceed to a ... the lone exception being Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, who voted against him. If confirmed as VA secretary, Collins would oversee ...