Gregorio Sablan

Will you, Madam Secretary, will you commit to follow the law?

We cannot keep operating like this. So, I look forward to working with my colleagues here in Congress.

I explained the path we are forging to fiscal, economic, and social stability in the Commonwealth.

I mentioned that the CNMI is facing financial conditions that make our commonwealth again acutely vulnerable to Chinese Communist Party exploitation.

Thus, we come here under Chairman Westerman's leadership to regroup and confront together the PRC's threat to the freedom of the blue continent that stretches across the Indo-Pacific region.

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

there is no easy way that our nation will be able to maintain our influence in what is becoming an increasingly strategic, important, and contested area of the world without continuing our partnership with the COFA nations

today is, indeed, a very important day, historic in some ways, because it marks the beginning of what I hope and I believe will be a successful bipartisan effort to renew the financial provisions of the Compacts of Free Association

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.

There is no easy way that our nation will be able to maintain our influence in what is becoming an increasingly strategic, important, and contested area of the world without continuing our partnership with the COFA nations.

Today is, indeed, a very important day, historic in some ways, because it marks the beginning of what I hope and I believe will be a successful bipartisan effort to renew the financial provisions of the Compacts of Free Association.

Renewing the financial provisions of the Compact is essential to our nation's security posture in the Indo-Pacific region.

On a day like this, the last day of the week when Members get to vote by 11 o'clock, and then they start running out that door, I used to be envious. Today, I am actually astonished; astonished at the problem before us and that people have…

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

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

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

My amendment No. 606, which is included in En Bloc 5, creates a VA advisory committee for veterans living in the U.S. insular areas and in the Freely Associated States. Veterans in my district, especially, and in the other insular areas…

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…

The America COMPETES Act makes landmark investments to ensure our people, research, innovation, and manufacturing remain competitive globally. The legislation includes several of my bills supporting these goals: by providing Marianas…

My bipartisan legislation, H.R. 3730, creates a VA advisory committee for marginalized veterans living in the Marianas, the other United States insular areas, and in the freely associated States. Veterans in my district, especially, and in…

My amendment No. 363, which is included in En Bloc 3, ensures the 1,700 small businesses in my district can access financing through the Small Business Administration's micro loan program. The program is targeted specially to help women…

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.