Daniel Akaka: “Understanding foreign languages is also vital to our economic security as Americans compete in the global marketplace.”

I fought to include a report on remittance transfers in the Dodd-Frank provisions.

Thank you for all of your work in all of that.

The month of November provides Native peoples opportunity to educate by sharing their history and culture with a larger audience.

I want to say aloha and thank you so much for being here today for the Committee's oversight hearing on Reclaiming Our Image and Identity for the Next Seven Generations.