Daniel Inouye News

Jennifer Sabas , who was the late Sen. Daniel Inouye 's Hawaii chief of staff, has been named executive director of Move Oahu Forward , a coalition of business leaders formed to support the $5.16 billion Honolulu rail project.

I've met a lot of people in my life, but no one like Sen. Daniel Inouye. A soft-spoken son of Japanese immigrants, he rose to become a war hero and represented Hawaii in Congress from the time it became a state.

The Hawaii Government Employees Association on Sunday threw its support behind the Hawaii Democrat, with President Jackie Ferguson-Miyamoto saying in a statement that Schatz has "had unwavering support for Hawaii's workers."

The National History Day delegation and Congressman Faleomavaega took their seats alongside the Hawaiian and Samoan communities represented at the King Kamehameha draping ceremony, as well as members of the Hawai'i State Congressional Delegation, including Senator Mazie Hirono, Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa, and Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.

Admittedly reluctant at first to take the job, Lt. Gov. Shan Tsutsui says he did not want to join Gov. Neil Abercrombie's administration if it meant merely making appearances -- "groundbreaking, reading books and blessings" -- or simply carrying the administration's water on controversial issues.

US Names New Destroyer After Armenian Navy Secretary http://asbarez.com/110534/us-names-new-destroyer-after-armenian-navy-secretary/ Friday, June 7th, 2013 Paul Ignatius WASHINGTON - The Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced last month that the next Arleigh Burke-class destroyers will be named USS Paul Ignatius and USS Daniel Inouye.

On Wednesday, the same day friends and family were bidding farewell to Sen. Frank Lautenberg at his funeral in Manhattan, another noted World War II veteran was being memorialized at Arlington National Cemetery with a wreath-laying ceremony.

New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who died Monday, will make a final trip to the Capitol on Thursday to lie in repose in the well of the Senate chamber.

Over the last seven decades, 115 veterans of World War II have served in the United States Senate.

A discussion in Washington, D.C. on native issues is continuing an alliance between congressional delegations of Alaska and Hawaii, forged by a longtime friendship between two senators.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg, the last World War II veteran to serve in the Senate, reportedly will be buried Friday at Arlington National Cemetery.

In the not very very distant past, the corridors of the U.S. Senate were alive with men who had served in World War II, among them such powerful icons as John Warner of Virginia, Ted Stevens of Alaska, Daniel Inouye of Hawaii and Ernest Hollings of South Carolina.

Sen. Daniel Akaka , the first Native Hawaiian to serve in the Senate, leaves the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg died Monday morning due to complications from viral pneumonia at the age of 89, his office said.

That could help insulate the base from future national defense budget cuts, and Rep.

I choose to honor my fallen Marine comrades with quiet reflection today, May 30, rather than Monday, as I still cannot get behind a solemn holiday transformed into a scheme to enrich retailers and the travel industry by the ludicrous 1968 Uniform Monday Holiday Act .

U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa wants to move the date of Memorial Day to encourage more Americans to focus on honoring military service members.

Originally named Decoration Day, Memorial Day's roots go back to the end of the U.S. Civil War.

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