Daniel Inouye: “The advancements military medicine has made over the last several decades have not only dramatically improved medical…”

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.

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.

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.