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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

 

Sen. Daniel Inouye, 83, first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1962, has cast 14,999 votes and did not vote in the only roll call so far on Tuesday.

Advertiser file photo | November 2006

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawai'i, is on the verge of becoming only the fourth senator in history to cast 15,000 votes.

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.