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Some people just can't take a hint. And those people get unfortunate nicknames, like 'birthers.'

The term 'birther' describes someone who believes President Barack Obama was not born in Hawaii, or the United States, and thus is constitutionally ineligible to be president.

According to the Associated Press, Hawaii's House Judiciary Committee heard a bill on Tuesday that would allow government officials to simply "ignore people who won't give up."

Both last year and in October of 2008 Dr. Chiyome Fukino, Hawaii's Health Director, issued statements assuring she'd seen the records that prove Obama's American citizenship.

However, according to Lorrin Kim, chief of the Hawaii Department of Health's Office of Planning, Policy and Program Development, the state continues to receive e-mails from 'birthers' requesting verification.

These e-mails number 10 to 20 per week, and waste time and money, says Kim.