“We’ve gone from a Senate that passed DOMA over my objections to one that just welcomed its first openly gay senator,” Kerry said. Sens. Boxer, Feinstein & Wyden joined Kerry in voting against DOMA in 1996.
Coming to Washington over the request of the late Sen. Daniel Inouye, Schatz, 40, said Wednesday’s appointment is “the first step on a very long road.” He intends to fight global warming, calling it “the most urgent challenge of our generation.”
Plans for rare honor of formal funeral proceedings being prepared for legendary Hawaiian lawmaker.
According to his office, his last word was “Aloha.” Inouye, a decorated war veteran, was the president pro tempore of the United States Senate and the highest-ranking Asian-American politician in American history.
