Gregorio Sablan: “The purpose of the National Labor Relations Act was to strengthen unions as an institution in our economy.”

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

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

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