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Daniel Inouye

Daniel Inouye

Daniel Ken "Dan" Inouye (; Japanese: 井上 建, Inoue Ken; born September 7, 1924) is the senior United States Senator from Hawaii, a member of the Democratic Party, and the President pro tempore of the United States Senate making him the highest-ranking Asian American politician in American history.

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Chief of US missile defense sees little progress in North Korean spaceflight program

North Korea's recent failed rocket launch shows that the communist country has made little progress in its spaceflight program, the head of the U.

S. missile defense program said Wednesday.The assessment by Lt. Gen. Patrick J. O'Reilly raises questions about the immediate threat to the United States from a North Korean long-range missile and the billions that the U.S. spends to counter it.O'Reilly testified before a Senate panel in defense of the missile defense program and the Obama administration's $7.75 billion budget request for next year. He was pressed about the failure last Friday of North Korea's Unha-3 rocket that broke apart. The North Korean government said the rocket carried an Earth observation satellite, though other countries said it was a cover for testing long-range missile technology.North Korea's Unha rocket shots in 1998, 2006 and 2009 are believed to have ended in failure."Our experience has been you need a lot of testing and flight testing in order to validate and ...

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    Republicans thundered into the majority in the House of Representatives Tuesday night, making historic gains by a proportion not seen in more than 70 years. The part...

  3. Republicans Win House Majority, Make Senate Gains in Wave Election

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  4. House GOP budget cuts could affect Pacific tsunami warning center, union says

    A spending plan being pushed by Republicans would slash funding for the agency that warned Hawaii and the West Coast about the devastating tsunami in Japan.The plan,...

  5. Hawaiians Decide Gubernatorial, Senate Primaries

    Hawaii Democrats on Saturday nominated former U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie in their bid to retake the governor's office from the GOP in President Obama's birth state. ...

  6. Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii Announces He Won't Seek Re-Election

    HONOLULU -- Democratic U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii says he won't run for re-election next year.The 86-year-old announced Wednesday that he'll finish his term an...

  7. Democrats and Republicans remember Ted Stevens for helping Alaskans over 40 years in Senate

    Ted Stevens was remembered for touching many lives during his four decades as a U.S. senator and using his considerable clout to bring change to Alaska: from indoor ...

  8. Congress to vote on medal for "Go for broke" Japanese-American veterans of World War II

    Ronald Oba grew up saluting the U.S. flag and saying the Pledge of Allegiance in school, like millions of other American boys.But he was labeled an "enemy alien" aft...

  9. Reaction to the death of former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens in a plane crash

    Reaction to the death of former Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska:___"A decorated World War II veteran, Sen. Ted Stevens devoted his career to serving the people of Alaska ...

  10. How Much Will Pork Projects Cost Taxpayers?

    It's All Your Money: $8B in earmarks, but what does it cost you?

  11. Pork Barrel Rolls Into Washington

    William LaJeunesse brings us the latest on federal spending

  12. $48 Million Warfighting Center Opens in Pearl Harbor

    PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- The military is opening a $48 million high-tech facility in Pearl Harbor it expects to use for exercises, training and battle simulations.Com...

  1. Senate Panel Approves Freeze in Defense Spending

    A Senate panel on Tuesday approved a freeze in defense spending at $513 billion for the next military budget, including a $1.6 billion cut in funds that the Pentagon...

  2. Senate panel approves $513 billion defense bill freezing amount at current levels

    A Senate panel on Tuesday approved a freeze in defense spending at $513 billion for the next military budget, including a $1.6 billion cut in funds that the Pentagon...

  3. Nearly 7 decades after Pearl Harbor, Japanese-Americans get congressional honor

    Thousands of Japanese-Americans who fought in the fiercest battles of World War II and became some of the most decorated soldiers in the nation's history were given ...

  4. State Department: Agent charged in Hawaii killing was assigned to help with APEC security

    A federal agent charged with killing a man inside a McDonald's restaurant in Waikiki was in Hawaii to help with security at this week's Asia-Pacific Economic Coopera...

  5. Fact Check: Boehner Not the Top Recipient of Lobbyist Donations

    A Sunday New York Times article portrayed House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, as "especially" indebted to lobbyists, a condition touted by White House Press ...

  6. House Begins Debate Over Plan to Chop Spending for Remainder of 2011

    Republicans have kicked off what is expected to be a weeklong debate on the House floor over their controversial blueprint for reducing spending by $100 billion over...

  7. Senator Denounces Budget Bill as 'Trojan Horse' to Fund New Health Care Law

    A Republican senator on Thursday denounced the $18 billion in provisions added to a catchall spending bill to keep the government running through next year, saying t...

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