Daniel Inouye: “We very much appreciate the opportunity and the funding that Hawaii has.”

We may have our roots in Japan, but we are committed to the United States and we are prepared to fight for this country.

Who was one of my great inspirations for this diplomatic approach? Because we have a choice.

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.

By allowing the DREAM Act to sit idle, we extinguish hope for a lot of people and deny too many the opportunity I was given.