U.S. Senator Daniel Kahikina Akaka is America's first Senator of Native Hawaiian ancestry, and the only Chinese American member of the United States Senate.

First elected to the U.S. House in 1976, Congressman Akaka was appointed to the Senate when Senator Spark Matsunaga passed away, subsequently winning election to the office in 1990, and re-election in 1994, 2000, and 2006.

Senator Akaka is the Chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Federal Government Management, the Federal Workforce and the District of Columbia.

Senator Akaka also serves on the Indian Affairs, Armed Services, and Banking Committees and chairs the Congressional Task Force on Native Hawaiian Issues.

For more information and to contact Senator Akaka, please visit his official Senate website at http://akaka.senate.gov.

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