I would like to submit for the record letters from Governor Lemanu Mauga and myself to our counterparts in other insular territories asking them not to support or endorse efforts to deny self-determination.

The Insular Cases have led to unequal application of U.S. constitutional principles in the U.S. territories, which has led to the denial of constitutional rights in the territories.

American Samoa is unique by virtue that it became the only U.S. territory by deed secession starting in 1900.

It appears to be on the minority side right now, at least within the leadership of that party.

Are we going to hold on to our own power, whether it means stopping the very things that the founders fought so hard for?

The problem that is happening within the Republican Party is that divisiveness is what is over democracy itself, over what makes us America.

They have just become a party of obstruction of no-ism. They are not a party that wants to get to yes, that wants to support the American people. They want to support themselves and their quest for power.

I do believe that the Republican Party itself, those in elected positions are more concerned about retaining their power than speaking the truth, more concerned about being a part of the G.O.P. than they are about the direction of this…

The Republicans are following what their message is. They have decided that their message is obstructionism, is a big lie, is divisiveness, is tribalism, is in some instances dog whistling, and in some corners of the Republican conference…

You know, a neo Nazi group, a white supremacist group by any other name is still the same thing.

I think what she said was, is that what she that that the proposal that was put out by (INAUDIBLE) was something that an outside group had presented to her and that they were going through the issues.

Kevin McCarthy is not interested in talking about voting rights, creating a jobs bill that will continue to lift this country out of the issues that it has, and why are we continuing to point the finger on individuals that are trying to…

I think what Maxine Waters says was that we should confront the system that's created, the individuals have to being out there to protest.

I think that this is a red herring that the defense counsel is trying to bring. He doesn't have a case, as we saw from the supposedly expert witnesses that he brought forward.

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