Gregorio Sablan: “What is happening now in Puerto Rico should be a warning of what could happen in other U.S. insular areas.”

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

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.

On a day like this, the last day of the week when Members get to vote by 11 o'clock, and then they start running out that door, I used to be envious. Today, I am actually astonished; astonished at the problem before us and that people have…

We are a part of the United States, a permanent part of the United States, because we chose to be.