Daniel Akaka: “I want to welcome our witnesses to today's hearing, the Federal Government's Role in Empowering Americans to Make…”

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

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.

Well, thank you very much for that.

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