Sen. Mazie Hirono isn’t one to give many speeches on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and she doesn’t launch many zingers when she does.

The fact that the new senator was asked to speak not once, but twice was noteworthy enough. But during day-long speeches on the Senate’s proposed budget on Thursday, Hirono got up twice and got off two colorful lines:

Joining Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar to oppose the House Republican budget, she said it would continue the sequestration cuts for non-defense spending.  The budgetr, she said, “would set our recovery back and it would do so on the backs of peole who could least afford it…Who’d want to look someone in the eyes and say, ‘ Sorry, you cant affored to fed your childen.”

She also joined Senators Mark Warner and Tim Caine, from another defense-dependent state, Virgininia — in calling the sequestration cuts, “stupid.”

— Kery Murakami