Gregorio Sablan: “They deserve the attention from Federal Government employees, and it breaks my heart.”

We cannot countenance the culture of hate in our nation that leads to Asian and Pacific Islander Americans being harassed, assaulted, and scapegoated for the COVID-19 pandemic. Hateful rhetoric has deadly consequences. Xiaojie ``Emily''…

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.

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.

I hope that, Madam Chair, as part of a memorial, we can take up this long overdue technical correction in Federal election law.