Daniel Inouye: “I was pleased to see that your 'strategic priority is to reinvigorate U.S. economic leadership' in the East Asia and…”

The Department affects almost all sectors of our Nation's economy and literally touches all of our lives.

I strongly urge that the Committee take action to assure that laws relating to Native American languages not only include Native Hawaiians in their wording, but also include Native Hawaiians as actual beneficiaries.

It is and has always been Federal law and policy that Indian tribes recognized by the Federal Government stand on an equal footing to each other and to the Federal Government.

The intent of that language, it was clarified by one of the sponsors of that language, Senator Daniel K. Inouye