...the U.S. build section of the Act should be modified in certain trades of domestic shipping in order to support the U.S. Merchant Marine....

Hawaii had three major industries: tourism, the military, and Sen. Dan Inouye....

Boylan said the letter is Abercrombie's to release. But he confirmed it was Inouye's "last wish" for Hanabusa to succeed him.

Inouye died of respiratory complications at 5:01 p.m. EST (12:01 HST) Monday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, his office said....

• Senate: TAG Extension – Motion to Waive
• House: Suspension Authority
• House: Epinephrine Inhalers – Suspension
• House: Defense Authorization – Motion to Instruct

Rankings were determined by responses from about 700,000 federal workers from various agencies in the government....

Experiment with cash or cash-like incentives to encourage people to adopt healthy behaviors in the form conditional cash transfers....

Today, the Senate will begin debating a bill that was supposed to be disaster recovery funds for those devastated by the storm. But so many special-interest projects were added on that the $60.4 billion request has turned into a farce....

 “the remote states and territories.”

Daniel Inouye has been hospitalized since Thursday after suffering a fainting spell before a vote in the U.S. Capitol....

Asians are America's fastest-growing immigrant community, and Asian voters constitute 2 percent to 7 percent of registered voters in half of the traditional 10 swing states....

... lawmakers will make a bid to increase taxes yet again ....

“We have emptied the nation's hospitals, gutted state and local mental health programs, and turned involuntary treatment into a debate point instead of using it as a viable option to prevent tragedy...."

...Kawaiahao Church in Honolulu is not exempt from historic preservation review....

...the ICA held that property owners ... are not required to seek an amendment to the Community Plan in order to ripen their takings claims....

...the government condemned the appraised area, paying for it with compensation supplied by the Ungactas, and transferred it to the Ungactas....

...tax-payer-provided subsidies are beggar-thy-neighbor policies. At the end of the day, they just tend to cancel each other out and essentially transfer taxpayer money to corporations ....

Tropical Cyclone Evan was stationary over Samoa for approximately 24 hours.... 

Senators, speaking anonymously, said the panel has lost power in recent years under Inouye, 88, who took over the chairmanship after Democrats pressured Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., to relinquish the post in 2008....

This week, President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) have been trading secret offers on the fiscal cliff....