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We will need even more data and resources to understand the impacts climate change is having on our oceans.

I also rise in support of H.R. 573. The bill conveys to the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas the 3 miles of submerged lands surrounding each of our 14 islands. I want to thank leaders from both sides of the aisle, Chairman Doc…

50 years ago, the first school to offer secondary education in the Northern Mariana Islands was officially named Hopwood Junior-Senior High School, in honor of Admiral Herbert Gladstone Hopwood, commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet. In…

the two best things that Congress has ever done for the place I am from, and one is to approve the permanent political status relationship we have with the United States.

Thank you very much. Mr. Speaker, I'd also like to express my deepest condolences to the people of Hawaii for their loss of a great Senator and a great American. I would not be here today standing in the well of the House if not for…

I rise, as many others have, to offer my deepest condolences to the children, families, and community of Newtown, Connecticut. They are enduring a terrible tragedy in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. But merely to offer…

Thank you very much, Congresswoman Norton, the distinguished representative of the District of Columbia. She represents me whenever I am not at home, and has done an exceptional job. And I thank you for sponsoring today's Special Order…

if anybody questions the scientific facts, I have a place in Micronesia, where I am from. Come over. I will show you about climate change, about rising sea levels, and the change it is making to the islands.

American citizens and businesses do not support attempts to weaken the Lacey Act.

We need to pay careful attention to the balance between the marginal benefit of these few snake species to private business, and the huge potential cost to society.

I ask you to join me in celebrating the 60th anniversary of Mount Carmel School and its proud record serving students in the Northern Mariana Islands from their elementary through high school years. Since opening its doors, the school has…

We have no objection to S. 271, and I have no further speakers. I yield back the balance of my time.

We have no further speakers. If the gentleman from Colorado has no further need of time, I will yield back the balance of my time.

At this time I have no further speakers, and I urge the adoption of the legislation. I yield back the balance of my time.

At this time, I yield as much time as she may consume to the distinguished gentlewoman from the United States Virgin Islands, Dr. Christensen.

At this time I yield such time as he may consume to the distinguished gentleman from California (Mr. Farr).

President Theodore Roosevelt designated Pinnacles National Monument in California under the authority of the Antiquities Act of 1908. H.R. 3641 would redesignate the monument as Pinnacles National Park. While the name change will not…

Here's a story to make us all cheer: 46 high school musicians from America's smallest insular area raise a quarter of a million dollars to go to London and perform during the Olympics where they win a silver medal. This is the story of the…