Daniel Akaka: “Your advocacy on behalf of Federal employees, from your efforts to ensure fair pay and benefits to your actions to…”

Financial literacy and consumer protection issues are very close to my heart.

Thank you, Chairman Brown. Thank you very much for holding this hearing today and for all of your work on consumer protection issues.

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

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.