Daniel Inouye: “I am committed to a greater clean energy future for Hawaii, and am presently working toward an enduring Federal energy…”

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

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.

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.