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  ipedia.com: Hawaii Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Hawaii (in the Hawaiian language and as used increasingly in that place, spelled Hawai‘i with the ‘okina;) is the North Central Pacific Ocean archipelago of the Hawaiian Islands, constituting the 50
The Newlands Resolution was passed in 1898 establishing the Territory of Hawai‘i;; Hawai‘i became the State of Hawaii of the United States in 1959.
Hawai‘i is home to a number of endemic plant and animal species that are vulnerable to outside threats.
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  Hawaii   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Hawaii (in the Hawaiian language and as used increasingly in that place, spelled Hawai‘i with the ‘okina;) is the North Central Pacific Ocean archipelago of the Hawaiian Islands, constituting the 50
Hawaii (Hawai‘i) is the birthplace of surfing, where kanaka maoli invented the sport enjoyed around the world.
The Newlands Resolution was passed in 1898 establishing the Territory of Hawai‘i;; Hawai‘i became the State of Hawaii of the United States in 1959.
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 Hawaii - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Hawaii (Hawaiian/Hawaiian English: Hawai‘i, with the ‘okina) is the archipelago of the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Hawaii constitutes the 50th state of the United States, and as of the 2000 U.S. Census had a population of 1,211,537 people.
Hawaii, being one of the United States, is included in the North American Numbering Plan; its area code within that plan is 808.
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 Hawaii - Gurupedia
2000 Census, the population of Hawaii was 1,211,537.
Because the written Hawaiian language was developed by U.S. missionaries in the early part of the 19th century, the spelling of Hawaiian words and their English equivalents are virtually identical, with the exception that Hawaiian uses the symbol 'okina (representing a glottal-stop) and the diacritical mark kahakō (see Hawaiian language).
A large proportion of Hawaii's population is of Asian (especially Japanese) descent, from those early immigrants who came to the islands in the nineteenth century to work on sugar plantations.
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 U.S. Congressional Delegations from Arkansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These are tables of congressional delegations from Arkansas to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.
Augustus H. Garland presented credentials as a senator-elect to the 40th Congress but was not permitted to take his seat, Arkansas having not been re-admitted to the Union.
Elected to fill the vacancy caused by the previous representative being elected to the next term, but dying before the term began.
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 Hawaii Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
'''Hawaii''' (Hawaiian languageHawaiian/Hawaiian English: '''Hawai‘i''', with the ''okina‘okina'') is the archipelago of the Hawaiian IslandsHawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Hawaii constitutes the 50th U.S. statesstate of the United States, and as of the United States 2000 Census2000 U.S. Census had a population of 1,211,537 people.
Hawai‘i represents the northernmost extension of the vast PolynesiaPolynesian triangle of the south and central Pacific Ocean.
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 Daniel Akaka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Daniel Kahikina Akaka (born September 11, 1924) is a U.S. Senator from Hawaii and a member of the Democratic Party.
He is the first U.S. Senator of Native Hawaiian ancestry and is the only Chinese American member of the Senate (and one of two Senators with Japanese ancestry).
Hawaii Congressional Delegation serving in the 109th United States Congress.
www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Daniel_Akaka   (336 words)

  
 CQPolitics.com - political news for the 2008 election campaigns, covering all House, Senate and governor races.
Georgia Republican Paul Broun will be sworn in as the newest member of the U.S. Congress — almost certainly this week — after his opponent in the narrowly decided July 17 all-GOP special election runoff eschewed a challenge to the outcome.
Burkee plans to run against Sensenbrenner in the September 2008 Republican primary in Wisconsin’s 5th Congressional District, while Walz seeks to claim the usually uncoveted Democratic nomination in a place where 63 percent of the voters favored re-electing George W. Bush as president in 2004.
That is something the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) accomplished during the latter part of the year’s second quarter, which concluded June 30.
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 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Editorial Column   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
But after 1900, when Hawaii became a U.S. territory, the ruling Caucasian establishment minority was happy with the status quo because they had leverage in Washington to influence appointments of our territorial governors and judges.
King was elected delegate to Congress in 1934 and Farrington to the territorial Senate.
In 1956 Jack Burns, Democrat, was elected delegate to Congress by defeating the widow of Farrington who had died of a heart attack in 1954.
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 Analysis: Legislative elections lean to GOP House control [Free Republic]
Congressional districts are not random amalgamations of communities and neighborhoods.
Within the 121 seats, however, are delegations like Hawaii, Maine, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts (where there is not enough support in the state legislature to sustain a gubernatorial veto) that are already all Democrat.
Even with all Democrat control of the redistricting process for the 54 seats California is expected to have after the Clerk of the US House determines how many seats each state gets based on the census, the Republicans are in the best position for redistricting since any time since 1920.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a0f4dc85f73.htm   (1411 words)

  
 U.S. Newswire : Releases : "SBSC Issues Rankings Of All 50 State Congressional Delegations' Voting Records On Small ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The state delegation ratings are simply the average of all of the House and Senate members scores in each state.
The state averages ranged from a perfect 100 percent for Idaho to a dismal 0 percent for the Massachusetts' delegation.
The top 10 congressional delegations voting in favor of small business were: 1.
releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=2043   (382 words)

  
 U.S. Congressional Delegations from Hawaii - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These are tables of congressional delegations from Hawaii to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.
Appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill vacancy.
Elected to fill the vacancy caused by the previous representative being elected posthumously.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/US_Congressional_Delegations_from_Hawaii   (143 words)

  
 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The inhabited islands are seven of the southernmost lying between Ni‘ihau and the Big Island of Hawai‘i, but the island chain extends another 1000 miles (1600 kilometers) to the northwest.
Hawaii is known for having a high amount of state taxes per capita.
According to the 2000 Census, 6.6% of Hawaii's population identified themselves as Native Hawaiian, 24.3% were White or Caucasian, including Portuguese and 41.6% were Asian, including 0.1% Asian Indian, 4.7% Chinese, 14.1% Filipino, 16.7% Japanese, Okinawan, 1.9% Korean and 0.6% Vietnamese.
www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Hawaii   (3811 words)

  
 US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation : Report from a Congressional District
He held a second meeting with us the very next day and said he had not read the position paper, which was prepared by a staff member who also happens to be involved with a Zionist group in town.
We have had delegations of 10 to 15 people stand vigil in front of the entrances leafleting while others go inside to raise the issue of Palestine with the Representative/candidate directly.
All this is by way of saying that we can have an enormous impact on the candidates right now if we do just a little bit of organizing and use our listservs to show that we have the numbers, i.e., the votes, to make a difference in the election.
www.endtheoccupation.org /article.php?id=58   (378 words)

  
 Hawaii   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The last volcanic eruption elsewhere in the archipelago was on the southwest flank of East Maui Volcano, near the end of the 18th Century.
The Hawai'i Republican Party, supported by the plantation owners was voted out of office and the Hawai'i Democratic Party dominated state politics for forty years.
Prevalent in post-statehood Hawai'i was an increase in combative attitudes by some native Hawaiians towards the federal government, seen by some as an occupying power.
www.yotor.com /wiki/en/ha/Hawaii.htm   (3651 words)

  
 Chapters XLIX-LVII.
Two delegations claiming to represent Hawaii have visited Washington at intervals during the past four years in the cause of annexation, besides which other individuals have been sent on to assist in this attempt to defraud an aboriginal people of their birthrights, – rights dear to the patriotic hearts of even the weakest nation.
Although it was written not to serve Hawaii, but in the interest of the annexationists, the plea used was that the Hawaiians had shown themselves so capable of self-government, and were so proud of their autonomy in the Pacific, that they would be well qualified to be United States citizens.
It was not until the third trial, when poor little Hawaii regained that position in the Pacific Ocean in which the hand of the Creator had left her, that the lecturer, after some hesitation in order to be sure that this time he was right, dared to proceed with his discourse.
digital.library.upenn.edu /women/liliuokalani/hawaii/hawaii-6.html   (14282 words)

  
 Dispatch, Vol 1, No 11, November 12, 1990
On the US side, we have had to deal with two major difficulties since the summer--the conflict in the gulf and the budget crisis.
Unfortunately, the timing of the congressional action and the timing of the Japanese announcement only reinforced the perception in this country that harsh action and pressure are the only ways to move the Japanese.
Finally, the US government is working with the Japanese on questions of structural changes that will identify and remove barriers to market-determined trade and investment flows.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/briefing/dispatch/1990/html/Dispatchv1no11.html   (12865 words)

  
 US Presidents - Benjamin Harrison
At the end of his administration Harrison submitted to the Senate a treaty to annex Hawaii; to his disappointment, President Cleveland later withdrew it.
Congressional elections in 1890 went stingingly against the Republicans, and party leaders decided to abandon President Harrison although he had cooperated with Congress on party legislation.
"I said to one of the first delegations that visited me that this was a contest of great principles; that it would be fought out upon the high plains of truth, and not in the swamps of slander and defamation.
www.juntosociety.com /uspresidents/bharrison.html   (837 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Editorial Column
ORSON Swindle is off on his second attempt to take our First District congressional seat back to the Republican side of the House of Representatives.
Hawaii has had only Democrats in the Senate and House since then, one of the few such state delegations in Congress.
But a lot of us have come to believe that the word "entitlement" needs re-examination when it means funding unlimited births for young, unmarried girls ill-equipped to be parents, giving aid to those quite able to help themselves, or further funding programs that haven't worked.
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 U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Children's Defense Fund Action Council Scorecard Ranks..."   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Action Council ranked Hawaii's congressional delegation No. 1, with a 94 percent rating, while Wyoming was worst with a score of 5 percent.
The state congressional delegations with the best 2004 voting records for children were: 1.
The complete CDF Action Council Congressional Scorecard provides charts showing the best and worst members of Congress on legislation affecting the lives of children, the best and worst state delegations for children, and the scores of each individual member by state.
releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=44745   (699 words)

  
 US Congressional Delegations from California Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The most populous and third largest state in the U.S., with a population roughly the size of Canada and one of the biggest economies in the world, California is more like a country than a state.
In the center and east of the state are the Sierra Nevada, containing the highest peak in the continental U.S., Mount Whitney, at 14,505 feet (4421 m).
The U.S. Census Bureau reports California's 2000 population as 33,871,648, and estimates its 2003 population as 35,484,453.
www.echostatic.com /US_Congressional_Delegations_from_California.html   (3479 words)

  
 Children's Defense Fund   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In this newly-released report, individual Senators and Representatives and state delegations were given nonpartisan rankings based on their votes in Congress during 2004 on legislation affecting children's lives.
The state delegation with the best record was Hawaii, leading with 94%, followed by Massachusetts and Rhode Island (which tied for second), Vermont, North Dakota, Maryland, Maine, Delaware, New York, and Oregon.
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Members Xavier Becerra, Raul Grijalva, Ed Pastor, Linda Sanchez, José E. Serrano, and Hilda L. Solis were among the Members of Congress with perfect scores.
www.childrensdefense.org /childwatch/default-old.aspx   (1031 words)

  
 A Mass. Special Election!
The key beneficiaries of the new special election race are the Massachusetts congressional delegation many of whom have accumulated million dollar campaign war chests but face little or no competition for re-election.
US Senator Edward Kennedy was one of the first Democratic Party leaders to call for a special election to fill the Kerry seat.
In 1996 with the defeat of US Representatives Peter Blute and Peter Torkelson the entire Massachusetts congressional delegation became all white, all male and all Democrat and has remained so for almost a decade.
members.cox.net /nixatron/weblog/a_mass_special_election.htm   (977 words)

  
 HTA Regular Board Meeting - February 20, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Hawaii has recovered in a quality fashion in bringing visitor levels back to pre September11 levels and that good quality visitors are coming back to Hawaii without putting Hawaii on sale through substantial discounts across the board; and,
Hawaii's method to measure expenditure efforts has been used as a model by other states.
Kim moved to enter into executive session pursuant to Hawaii Revised Statutes section 92-4 for the purpose of considering the hire, evaluation, dismissal, or discipline of an employee and to consult with the Board's attorney on questions relating to the Board's powers, duties, and privileges.
www.state.hi.us /tourism/minutes/02-20-02.html   (3326 words)

  
 US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation : Engaging Your Congressional Representative: 10 Tips to Get Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The composition of your delegation should show that support for a just peace cuts across ethnic and religious lines and that a just peace is supported by both money and votes.
As American citizens, you are deeply concerned about US support to the Israeli occupation, through military aid and non-fulfillment of UN resolutions.
If you are asking the Members to do something pro-active, be sure to contact them after a reasonable amount of time if they have not done what you have requested.
www.endtheoccupation.org /article.php?id=8   (777 words)

  
 Index of /wiki/en/us/   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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 Childrens Defense Fund
The 2001 Children's Defense Fund Action Council Nonpartisan Congressional Scorecard, released today, documents how U.S. Senators and Representatives used the power of their offices as they cast votes affecting the lives of America's children.
The Congressional Scorecard shows that the House of Representatives voted to provide more than $7 billion in tax cuts to 16 large corporations just weeks after deciding they could not afford to guarantee $1 billion in help for abused and neglected children.
The Congressional Scorecard reveals a wide disparity in the ratings among state delegations based on their members' votes.
www.commondreams.org /news2002/0710-01.htm   (535 words)

  
 U.S. Congressional Delegation From Hawaii Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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This is the current U.S. congressional delegation from Hawaii.
For past congressional delegations, see U.S. Congressional Delegations from Hawaii.
www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/U.S._Congressional_Delegation_from_Hawaii   (276 words)

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