Gregorio Sablan: “Protecting these and other special places from destruction is critical to scientific discovery and natural resource…”

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 mentioned that the CNMI is facing financial conditions that make our commonwealth again acutely vulnerable to Chinese Communist Party exploitation.

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

We cannot keep operating like this. So, I look forward to working with my colleagues here in Congress.