Gregorio Sablan: “Flooding is one of the main threats that climate change poses to coastal states, including the Northern Mariana Islands.”

there is no easy way that our nation will be able to maintain our influence in what is becoming an increasingly strategic, important, and contested area of the world without continuing our partnership with the COFA nations

Will you, Madam Secretary, will you commit to follow the law?

There is no easy way that our nation will be able to maintain our influence in what is becoming an increasingly strategic, important, and contested area of the world without continuing our partnership with the COFA nations.

Ever since, the Insular Cases have been used to block territorial efforts for equal treatment in essential Federal programs from Medicaid and food stamps to SSI.