Daniel Akaka: “I am asking this as chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee. I have been working on what I am calling a seamless…”

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

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

I am proud of the work we have accomplished on this Committee through both legislation, such as the Dodd-Frank and the Credit CARD Acts.

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