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Updated at 1:37 p.m., Thursday, October 25, 2007

Attorney general testimony lasts over hour and a half

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State Transportation Director Barry Fukunaga was the first to testify today at a public hearing at the Capitol on the Superferry.

RICHARD AMBO | Honolulu Advertiser

Attorney General Mark Bennett testified before two state House committees for more than an hour and a half today while the committees still had more than 180 speakers left to hear.

After nearly 90 minutes of answering representatives' questions, Bennett told the panel, "You know I was at the Senate yesterday and they didn't ask me any questions."

He began his testimony at 11:40 a.m. before the Committee on Transportation and the House Committee on Finance.

At 1 p.m., Rep. Joe Souki, chairman of the transportation committee, told fellow representatives that "we have 180 testifiers to come next. ... And the attorney general may faint if we go on longer."

Earlier in the day, representatives spent more than two hours questioning Barry Fukunaga, director of the state Department of Transportation, and Ted Liu, director of the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.

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