Senate's 2nd longest-serving member, dead at 88

Daniel Inouye, a World War II veteran who received the Medal of Honor and represented Hawaii in the Senate for five decades, has died, CNN quoted his office as saying. He was 88. He died of respiratory complications Monday evening shortly at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, with his wife and son at his side. Inouye was hospitalized last week and had undergone procedures to regulate his oxygen intake. He won his ninth consecutive term in 2010 and was the second-longest-serving senator in the chamber's history, trailing only Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia. Inouye was a senator for all but three of Hawaii's 53 years as a state and had served as its first House member before that.