Haley Stevens: “Today I was given a copy of the statement made by my Senate brother from Hawaii, Senator Inouye, at the David Sarnoff…”

“Today I was given a copy of the statement made by my Senate brother from Hawaii, Senator Inouye, at the David Sarnoff Award Banquet last night. I came to the floor to commend that speech to Members of the Senate. I do think if Senators read it, some of them at least might change their position on some of the issues that are going to come before us next week. This is a very thoughtful speech that Senator Inouye made. This David Sarnoff Award, as we all know, is named after the founder of the Association of Communications, Electronics, Intelligence and Information Systems Professionals, a group of people who have devoted their lives to improving the technology for our people who are engaged in the intelligence-gathering system of the United States. This is an award that has been given to many distinguished people in the past--former Secretary Bill Perry, Secretary of State Colin Powell, former Senator and Vice President Al Gore, our current Vice President, Dick Cheney. It is an award anyone would be proud to receive, but as a practical matter, I bet those people did not expect the speech of the type they heard.”