Daniel Akaka: “Violence against Native women has reached epidemic rates.”

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

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

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.