This is the first time in history that the people of the Northern Mariana Islands, a United States commonwealth since 1978, have had a representative in Congress to speak on their behalf before this committee; and for this, I am grateful, humbled, and very privileged.
Sablan expresses gratitude for representing the Northern Mariana Islands in Congress.
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I am not convinced the Department has been using this money as effectively as it could.
I wish to associate myself with the statements including the discussion of the legal hurdles of allowing citizens of territories to fully and finally exercise their rights as Americans.
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
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