On the recordSeptember 24, 1997
I am really very, very excited about the idea that for the first time since my coming here to Congress in 1990, we have a chance to discuss this issue. Many of us have been really worried and concerned about it. We have done what we could in letter writing and contacting and exposing this whole issue before our constituents, before the people that have some power to do something about this. But this is really a very, very serious situation. When we talk about the Northern Marianas, so many people think that this is a foreign country. Why should we care about what the conditions are that these people work under? Let me remind this House that in 1975 we entered into a compact with the Northern Marianas, a covenant which gave the indigenous people of this territory U.S. citizenship status. They are American citizens. They should abide by the fundamental laws of this country, but they do not.
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