Gregorio Sablan: “However, if H.R. 986 is enacted, workers would lose the protection of the federal minimum standard.”

Thus, we come here under Chairman Westerman's leadership to regroup and confront together the PRC's threat to the freedom of the blue continent that stretches across the Indo-Pacific region.

Will you, Madam Secretary, will you commit to follow the law?

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.

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.