(c) Copyright 2001 Kenneth R. Conklin, Ph.D. All rights reserved
It is notable that S.1783 was introduced immediately following Senator Inouye's humiliation in the Senate when his colleagues caught him trying to hide the then-current version of the bill, S.746, deep inside the Defense Appropriations bill. This was the second year in a row when Senator Inouye tried this same trick of placing the Hawaiian bill into a huge must-pass appropriations bill on an unrelated topic during the final days of a session of Congress before adjournment for the Christmas hoiliday. On both occasions, the Hawaiian bill was hidden inside a larger bill in the form of a single sentence, in the hope that it might slip through without anyone noticing. Here is that sentence this time around, buried in section 8,132 of this massive Defense Appropriations bill HR.3338:
"SEC. 8132. The provisions of S. 746 of the 107th Congress, as reported to
the Senate on September 21, 2001, are hereby enacted into law."
Inouye's sneak attack on the people of Hawai'i on December 7, 2001 came exactly 60 years after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i on December 7, 1941: "A day that shall live in infamy" (President Roosevelt asking Congress to declare war). In both December 2000 and December 2001, the normal proceedings in Congress had to be brought to a halt to remove the cancer Inouye had inserted into other legislation. Other Senators severely criticized Inouye's dishonorable, untrustworthy tactics as violations of Senate rules and Senatorial courtesy.
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