US Senator Daniel Inouye has snuck into the Omnibus spending bill an appropriation for study of native Hawaiian recognition.
The appropriation is related to his support for the Akaka bill, otherwise known as the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act.
Opponents of the Akaka Bill and government transparency advocates are concerned that the study provides no vehicle for public involvement, testimony or legal analysis and instead appears to simply be a working group — conducted in secret, with no particular beginning or end.
One Congressional source remarked, “If Inouye wants it to be a meaningful study, then it needs to be structured in a way that truly grapples with the legal, policy, and cultural questions in an organized fashion.
"Perhaps he does not really want that and instead is just tossing this study into the bill as an admission of defeat. If he wants it to work, then this isn’t the best way of doing it.”
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Ehu,
There is somthing else going on here, I am a skeptic cause I've lived here all my and have been aware of how the Democratic party plays (and it's my party). I know we are attached to the native Americans in many ways and this was just a final blow to the bloodquantum, but seriously speaking aina revenues do not just walk away too. I don't know the processes or the reasons why things are moving in this direction, but something smells. Was there back room deals and if not, was there an even tighter connection to the native Hawaiians (bloodquantum) and native Americans.
Prince Kuhio was a delegate and connected an amendment to the organic act itself and the Reorganization Act exist already, therefore I saw an attachment through these changes over time. As for the 'Nationals' I wish that to be true. But a prison is a prison and that's all that I've known Hawaii to be just an off island prison.
The AKaKa BILL was DEAD from the very beginning. I was at the Only Public Hearing on the AKaKa BILL and it was DEAD, DEAD, DEAD as We there told them, to KILL THE AKaKa BILL.
Long Live The Hawaiian Kingdom, o Pomaikaiaokalani, Hawaiian National Royalist 1993
Yes. It failed when Senator Harry Reid pulled omnibus "off the floor".
Didn' this omnibus fail? Not sure was was partially listening to HPR this evening while driving home.