I am grateful that the Oversight is having a hearing today on judicial activism and dark money influences.

Last year, the Supreme Court handed down the Castro-Huerta decision, gutting Federal recognition of tribal sovereignty.

Last year, the Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs decision, which upended 50 years of settled law.

Let us follow the money.

communications and technology are at the forefront of policy today. From protecting consumers to establishing competitive and open markets to using spectrum and fiber to close the digital divide, the Federal Communications Commission is…

What powerful words you shared with us, what a powerful story you shared with us.

we must back up those words with providing you with the services that you have earned and deserve.

The ways in which the PRC is undermining strategic and economic interest in the area, is trying to reshape narratives in the region.

It must also be to protect the places, to protect the people, to protect the reefs and the culture.

Thank you, Madam Vice Speaker, and formerly Speaker, for sharing the importance of treating equal as equal.

We have heard that our people are scared of China because these are smaller islands and these are places where the threat could be easily carried out.

Approving the proposal to review the financial provisions of the Compact of Free Association with FSM, Palau, and the RMI will continue our engagement.

We are here to make that commitment to you and to fight in Congress to make sure that we get those through the process.

I want you to know that you are being heard, loud and clear.

It is not just to address the strategic and military concerns that we have and economic concerns we have with the PRC, but to really celebrate and uphold our shared values as Americans.

Guam and our island nations are the center of American values and the center of the Pacific Ocean.

Our commitment here is not only military and diplomatic, but also the common well-being of our communities.

We recognize the four decades that the United States has maintained a special relationship with the Freely Associated States.