The question of whether or not Congress has the authority to federally recognize a Native Hawaiian governing entity is an issue that has yet to be ruled on by the courts,

As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.

We also want to hear from anyone interested in performing, like Hawaiian dancers or native American hoop dancers. We want to bring people together in this community so that we can be a community as one. I think education and knowledge can help us to do that.

Congress has to take a role in terms of intelligence that is unlike anything they do in any other authority, and that is to work without reference and without reference to who's getting more of the [pork] barrel and to work in a very positive way. There's great jealousies between the intelligence committees and the defense armed services committees. That shouldn't exist.

The Supreme Court's basic take is that when Congress has said something specific, the president's authority to take action beyond that is at its lowest ebb. This would seem to be right up against that wall. Congress has acted. The president seems to be circumventing it. And that raises an enormous constitutional question.

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.