Gregorio Sablan: “$6,344 in a year before taxes. Today, because of the minimum wage law that Congress passed, some of those same people…”

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.

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

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

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