Daniel Akaka

Thank you so much for having Mrs. Holy--Holly Petraeus come to Hawaii.

What I have been trying to do is to reduce the numbers of unbanked and underbanked and have more of them work with the institutions.

I have been working with the Indian Tribes and many Tribal communities are concerned about the financial literacy and financial empowerment of their Tribal members.

I was disappointed, of course, because of the increase, to learn the number of unbanked households increased by more than 800,000.

I must say that in its first year, the CFPB, the Bureau, has made great, great strides in educating, empowering, and also protecting our consumers in the financial marketplace.

The negative impacts of the Carcieri decision and how I feel, it has been staggering.

One of my top priorities is passing a clean, a clean Carcieri fix this session.

I would like to announce that the Committee on Indian Affairs will meet during the session of the Senate on September 14, 2012, in room SD-628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, at 2:30 p.m., to conduct a hearing on the President's…

One of our enduring rights in this country is that we are innocent until proven guilty. We need to hold onto that bedrock principle.

I think that enhancing litigation over individual Privacy Act violations would actually be a diversion of resources.

I think that the Senate should promptly confirm the five nominees for the Federal Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.

I think it is important to look closely at these issues and make any changes that are needed to protect our national security and employee safety.

Unfortunately, key pieces of this foundation have serious cracks that need to be fixed.

I have offered an amendment to the cybersecurity bill we are debating on the floor to make breach notification mandatory.

By many experts' accounts, this decision rendered the Act toothless, and scholars across the political spectrum have called for Congress to amend the Privacy Act to fix this decision.

My last question. Mr. Wilshusen, you testified that the Privacy Act is ineffective in informing the public about privacy practices and policies.

I think government transparency is critical but publishing employees' personal financial information on the Internet does raise some concerns.

Tribal gaming is now a $27 billion industry.

Gaming has been the single most effective of economic development for Indian Country.

Aloha and welcome to all of you here. Welcome to the Committee's oversight hearing on the Regulation of Tribal Gaming: From Brick and Mortar to the Internet.

I would like to announce that the Committee on Indian Affairs will meet during the session of the Senate on July 26, 2012, in room SD-628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, at 2:15 p.m., to conduct a hearing entitled ``Regulation of…

To me, it seems to make no sense whatsoever that a tribe is penalized for doing what it needs to do.

Well, you cannot make it any more clear than that. Thank you very much.

We need schools to be accountable for the money that they do receive and there are not that many ways in which we hold schools accountable like we should.

I would like to hear from the panel what can be done to ensure that schools continue to provide advice with the best interest of their students in mind.