Gregorio Sablan: “There can be no doubt that renewing the financial provisions of the Compact is essential to our nation's security…”

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…

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

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

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.