Daniel Inouye: “You have to believe I'm with you on everything you've said.”

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

We have the diplomatic approach, which is the carrot and carrot approach, where everybody wins.

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.