Daniel K. Akaka
- Party
- Democrat
- Office Held:
- US Senate, HI
- Office Sought:
- US Senate, HI
Daniel Kahikina Akaka (pronounced /əˈkɑːkə/; born September 11, 1924) is the junior U.S. Senator from Hawaii and a member of the Democratic Party. He is the first U.S. Senator of Native Hawaiian ancestry and is currently the only member of the Senate who has Chinese ancestry. With the departure of Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, and death of Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, he became the third oldest member of the United States Senate after Frank Lautenberg and Daniel Inouye.
Source: Wikipedia
Campaign Finance
$18,140 ReceivedFigures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:
- contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
- only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
- contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
- corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
- organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.
For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.
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Earmarks
$194,627,400 AllocatedFigures are based on both committee earmark disclosures and on analysis of appropriations bill text. Table shows top 10 earmarks, ordered by dollar amount in the final version of the bill. Earmarks from the president's budget proposal are not included.
For more information, see our Earmark Methodology page.
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Top Earmarks
Fiscal Year Amount Description 2010 $30,000,000 Honolulu High Capacity Transit Corridor Project, HI 2010 $25,070,000 Production Services Support Facility 2010 $21,617,000 Center for Civic Education for two programs (We the People and Cooperative Education Exchange) that are authorized in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as part of the Civic Education program 2010 $6,677,000 Tropical and Subtropical Research/T-Star 2010 $6,000,000 Reach Out and Read authorized under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 2010 $6,000,000 Hawaii Energy Sustainability Program (HI) 2010 $5,019,000 National Council on Economic Education for the Cooperative Education Exchange program, which is authorized in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as part of the Civic Education Program 2010 $5,000,000 Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, Hilo, HI 2010 $4,800,000 University of Hawaii, Florida A&M University (Brown, and Arkansas State University (Berry): Standoff Improvised Explosive Detection Program 2010 $4,500,000 Archinoetics: Warfighter Rapid Awareness Processing Technologies
