Hawaii Briefs: Seese Named Acting Energy Administrator for State -- Hawaii Reporter
(2011-01-12)

(2011-01-19)"If you intend this to be a building block, you have to avoid what often happens, where parties carve out exemptions for themselves," said Charles Morrison, president of the Honolulu-based East-West Center.
He said another challenge is that Obama lacks trade-promotion authority, also known as fast-track authority, which permits a president to negotiate trade agreements and submit them to Congress for direct approval.