Speaker. it is with great pleasure that I remember 10 years ago when in this very room I voted for the Hawaii statehood bill. Although it was a little over 5 months before the Land of Aloha officially became a State. I am happy today to recall that momentous occasion. Hawaii. the entrance way to the Pacific. is the land of beauty and love. The United States is a land of immigrantsHawaii even more so. The Polynesians. the first of the immigrants. came across the seas to make their homes. Then. in the mid 1800s. Western missionaries. traders. whalers. and explorers inundated the Islands.
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