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I want to commend Chairman Westerman and Ranking Member Grijalva for creating this Indo-Pacific Task Force to provide for a bipartisan process.

The Compacts give the U.S. responsibility for the COFA nations' defense, and provide the United States with the exclusive military use rights.

There can be no doubt that renewing the financial provisions of the Compact is essential to our nation's security posture in the Indo-Pacific region.

We are a part of the United States, a permanent part of the United States, because we chose to be.

I agree with you, sir. Yet, I don't think it strengthens America's position in the region if our population there is shrinking.

This inequity... started at first contact with non-Native Americans a long time ago.

This is the reason why democrats passed the largest single Federal investment in K to 12 education in U.S. history in the American Rescue Plan, to help communities and school districts return to in-person learning and to help students with…

I am not convinced the Department has been using this money as effectively as it could.

Unfortunately my constituents in the Marianas have been left behind, SNAP is a necessary part of moving my district forward.

It is unacceptable to be cutting food aid in the middle of the economic crisis caused by the pandemic.

The people I represent must be included in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP.

Ever since, the Insular Cases have been used to block territorial efforts for equal treatment in essential Federal programs from Medicaid and food stamps to SSI.

The explicit reasoning behind the most famous of the cases, Downes v. Bidwell in 1901 was that the new territories are inhabited by alien races that could not be governed by Anglo-Saxon principles.

Today's witnesses will be discussing H. Res. 279, which would place the U.S. House of Representatives on record as rejecting the racist reasoning of the Insular Cases.

The Northern Mariana Islands deserve equal representation in Congress.

But so now in 2021, cost remains the biggest deterrent to broadband access, along with dark spots in connectivity and the threat of typhoons disrupting the undersea cables.

Come October 1st, funding for Medicaid in the Northern Marianas will drop back to the statutory cap, $7.2 million, or an 88 percent reduction.

I also would think that the provisions of H.R. 3268 will help move forward the exercise of free and fair elections in the territories.