Gregorio Sablan: “I look forward to today's discussion on how to ensure that everyone is planning and saving for retirement and can get…”

The explicit reasoning behind the most famous of the cases, Downes v. Bidwell in 1901 was that the new territories are inhabited by alien races that could not be governed by Anglo-Saxon principles.

I hope that, Madam Chair, as part of a memorial, we can take up this long overdue technical correction in Federal election law.

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 wish to associate myself with the statements including the discussion of the legal hurdles of allowing citizens of territories to fully and finally exercise their rights as Americans.