Gregorio Sablan: “We also urge the support and passage of this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.”

This inequity... started at first contact with non-Native Americans a long time ago.

My amendment No. 606, which is included in En Bloc 5, creates a VA advisory committee for veterans living in the U.S. insular areas and in the Freely Associated States. Veterans in my district, especially, and in the other insular areas…

Ever since, the Insular Cases have been used to block territorial efforts for equal treatment in essential Federal programs from Medicaid and food stamps to SSI.

It is unacceptable to be cutting food aid in the middle of the economic crisis caused by the pandemic.