Akaka bill fails to move to Senate floor debate

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Jun/08/br/br08p.html

<edit.. this is a direct result of Bush's dogs saying NO"

WASHINGTON - The Senate voted today to reject an effort to bring the Native Hawaiian bill to the floor for debate and a vote.
The 56-41 vote fell short of the 60 votes needed to free the stalled bill, which conservative Republicans have kept from floor consideration since last summer. Three senators did not vote.

"The way this bill tries to maneuver around this unconstitutionality is by ... creating a new tribe of Native Hawaiians," he said. "But this new tribe is a shell game. As recently as 1998, the state of Hawai'i itself acknowledged that the tribal concept has no historical basis in Hawai'i."

none existed before hand?

What populated Hawaii before the Dole Fruit Company engineered a revolution to enhance their bottom line?

Racist fucktard!!!

the reason Akaka supposedly sold out ANWR... so this bill would come to the floor for a vote?