Daniel Inouye: “Of course a lot of what the military can use today traces its roots back to science and technology investments.”

This sequestration, coupled with projected discretionary defense spending, could add 1 percent to the national unemployment rate from job losses.

He told us that in his view, all tribes have a prepaid health plan, and that it was paid for by our ancestors who ceded their lands to the United States.

the Department affects almost all sectors of our Nation's economy and literally touches all of our lives.

above my desk in Washington is a copy of the labor contract that was signed by my grandfather, Asakichi Inouye, in July 1899. In the agreement, my grandfather would be paid $15 a month to work at the McBryde Sugar Company on the Island of…