Gregorio Sablan: “Their willingness to do so underscores the urgent need for the Senate to act.”

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.

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.

I explained the path we are forging to fiscal, economic, and social stability in the Commonwealth.