[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4728]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         NATIVE HAWAIIAN GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION ACT OF 2011

  (Ms. HANABUSA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. HANABUSA. Mr. Speaker, today, H.R. 1250 was introduced. 
Congresswoman Hirono, along with Mr. Young from Alaska, were among 
those, with myself, who signed onto this bill. It is the Native 
Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2011.
  This is a very misunderstood act. Well, what does it do? It really 
establishes us as meeting the fiduciary obligations that we have to the 
Native Hawaiians. This is a trust obligation that's been created long 
ago with the creation of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920--
1920, Mr. Speaker.
  In addition to that, when Hawaii became a State in 1959, in it was 
contained really a public trust obligation for the betterment of Native 
Hawaiians as defined by the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act.
  And then, of course, in Public Law 103-150 we created the concept of 
the Apology Resolution and, in that, recognized that we owe a special 
apology to the Native Hawaiians and a process of reconciliation.
  This is what this act will do. It will give us the right to make 
things correct, and that is why I ask that you, along with the rest of 
the colleagues, support this.

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