Daniel Akaka: “This April is Financial Literacy Month, our opportunity to showcase the importance of financial literacy in America.”

We must also reaffirm and acknowledge the Department of Education's Federal trust responsibility for American Indian and Alaska Native students.

I would like to announce that the Committee on Indian Affairs will meet during the session of the Senate on September 20, 2012, in room SD-628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, at 2:15 p.m., to conduct a business meeting to consider…

I think sequestration itself would have a negative impact.

to me culture is like a tree. If you cut the tree from the roots, which is a culture, you know, there is a huge loss of something.