FEDERAL RECOGNITION STALLS ONCE AGAIN !
The Honolulu Advertiser - Saturday, October 22, 2005
By Gordon Y.K. Pang
With the clock ticking toward the end of this year's congressional session, supporters and opponents of the Akaka bill can agree on one thing:
Neither side has a good idea of when, or if, the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act, also known as the Akaka bill in honor of lead author U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka, will get a vote on the floor of the Senate before this year's session ends.
Efforts by Akaka and fellow Hawai'i Sen. Daniel K. Inouye to get the bill moving in recent months have been stymied - first by conservative Republican senators and then a suddenly hectic fall congressional agenda that included disaster relief efforts, skyrocketing gasoline prices and two Supreme Court nominations....
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