Daniel Inouye: “If we let this fester any longer, it would be criminal, and I would hate to be a witness to its first accident.”

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.

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

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

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.