Daniel Akaka: “I agree 100 percent with your UNCLOS position for our country. It's about time that we become serious about that.”

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

Thank you for all of your work in all of that.

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.

Last Congress, bipartisan legislation was introduced by Senator Daniel Akaka (S. 998) and Representative George Miller (H.R. 1867) to address this problem and assure that all pilots are provided fair benefits.