Daniel Inouye: “It is a great honor to be here today in support of President Barack Obama's nomination of David Lorenzo Strickland.”

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.

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.

The NALEMP annual appropriation was first drafted in 1993 by Senator Ted Stevens and Senator Daniel Inouye.

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