The overarching truth, the "elephant in the room" if you will, is that the amount of Hawai'i's "Congressional Clout" is irrelevant. This is because Hawai'i is NOT now nor has it EVER been a part of the U.S.

Hawai'i has never been a U.S. possession, territory or state because it was NEVER legally annexed by the U.S. This is not opinion, fantasy, fiction or wishful thinking. It is an absolute truth proven by verified, unimpeachable historical evidence from the U.S. National Archives and Congressional Record.

In 1897 the U.S. government signed a treaty of annexation with the illegal puppet government that it put into power when it backed the illegal overthrow of Hawaii's lawfully elected monarchy. But Congress rejected the ratification of that treaty because nations cannot annex one another and Hawai'i's citizens rejected annexation. So the U.S. passed a Congressional resolution , a unilateral domestic law proclaiming that it had somehow annexed Hawai'i without Hawai'i's mutual consent.