Daniel Inouye: “Yes, I believe that the program is important to future innovations for the MASINT community.”

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.

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.

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