Gregorio Sablan: “I appreciate that the United States has provided leadership that countries in the Pacific look to for economic…”

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 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

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