Updated at 8:49 a.m., Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Inouye on verge of casting 15,000 votes in U.S. Senate
By DENNIS CAMIRE
Advertiser Washington Bureau
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So far, Inouye, 83, first elected to the Senate in 1962, has cast 14,999 votes and did not vote in the only roll call so far on Tuesday.
When Inouye hits the 15,000-vote milestone, he will join the ranks of Sens. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., the late Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., and Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.
Byrd is the all-time Senate leader, who cast his 18,215th vote on Tuesday.
After Hawai'i became a state in 1959, Inouye, a World War II veteran who received the Medal of Honor, served as the state's first congressman.
