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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Hawaii companies that would benefit from earmarks sponsored by U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, that are in the Senate version of the fiscal year 2010 defense appropriations measure. The firms' executives and other employees have contributed to Inouye's campaign committees since 1997.
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DCist (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Photo by HeatherMG Two weeks ago, we reported that an amendment granting the District a voting seat in the House might be tacked on to a defense spending bill . Now, it doesn't look like that will happen. Politico is reporting that Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), the Senate's top appropriator, is opposed to the idea , while other Democrats fear that adding the measure would imperil the larger bill....
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Law.com - Inside Opinions: Legal Bl (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Why, when I was a young whippersnapper, we had respect for our elders. The silver-haired among us were seen as vaults of accumulated wisdom, as mentors with lifetimes of lessons to share. But in today's youth-obsessed culture, those in their 70s and up sometimes seem to be all but invisible. So it is rejuvenating to see that October has brought two separate appreciations of the more senior members...
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Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
? AR-Sen : With Blanche Lincoln already facing the vague possibility of a primary challenge from her right from Arkansas Senate President Bob Johnson, now there are rumors that she might face a primary challenge from what passes for the left in Arkansas, from Lt. Gov. Bill Halter . Halter would focus on Lincoln's health-care related foot-dragging, but apparently has a track record of threatening to...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye becomes the third-longest-serving senator in U.S. history Thursday.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
HONOLULU -- Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye becomes the third-longest-serving senator in U.S. history Thursday.
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Corruption Chronicles (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Billions of dollars designated to buy essential supplies for U.S. troops in the Middle East will instead finance controversial projects like an institute to honor a scandalous late senator who let his mistress drown in a car he recklessly drove off a bridge. Indeed, $20 million in crucial defense money will be used to launch the Edward Kennedy Institute in Massachusetts. The money will come from a...
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Hawaii Right to Life (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor October 1, 2009 Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Members of the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday not only turned back an amendment to stop abortion funding, but they defeated an amendment to stop rationing as well. They rejected, on a party-line vote, an amendment to eliminate the rationing components of the Baucus health care bill. Sen. Jon Kyl, an Arizona...
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Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
Alaska lawmakers have honored a senator from Hawaii for his support of their state. Legislative leaders thanked Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, this week in Washington, D.C. They cited Inouye's support of oil development in Alaska, the state's military and missile defense system, and his approval of reparations for Aleuts who, along with Japanese-Americans, were interred in camps during World War II....
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Central Pacific Financial, in which Senator Daniel Inouye owns shares, didn't meet criteria for federal program but gets $135M after a call from his staff.
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Sen. Daniel Inouye's staff contacted federal regulators last fall to ask about the bailout application of an ailing Hawaii bank that he had helped to establish and where he has invested the bulk of his personal wealth.
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ONE (Free subscription) | 05/19/2009
Last week, nearly 600 Hawaii ONE members signed our petition to Senator Daniel Inouye asking him to use his power as Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee to fully fund the struggle to end global poverty. The petition drive followed an April meeting between ONE Members Heidi Lum, Linda Birn and Kimmie Palpallatoc, and Sen. Inouye’s [...]
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ONE (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009
Perhaps no one person in the United States holds more influence in deciding the fate of funding for the International Affairs Budget than 47 year veteran of the United States Congress, Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii. Senator Inouye is the Chairman of the powerful Committee on Appropriations, which appropriates the funds for all of ONE’s [...]
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 03/23/2009
President Barack Obama's $3.6 trillion budget faces its first tests on Capitol Hill this week, where a leading lawmaker wants to cut as much as $30 billion from agency budgets while promising to protect initiatives like energy, education and health care.
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Disappeared News (Free subscription) | 03/23/2009
by Larry Geller The Obama administration and the Treasury seem to have made the request, but who voted to pull the language in conference? The question has got too many people tied up. I suppose we do need to know, there’s been little to no accountability in this bailout process. So who knows the answer to this one? Ask Sen. Dan Inouye. He was there. In fact, he could have been one of the “bad...
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