Daniel Inouye: “Our loan repayment program, the increase that we received has been very successful.”

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 may have our roots in Japan, but we are committed to the United States and we are prepared to fight for this country.

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

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