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

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

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

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.