Gregorio Sablan: “I think you should be proud. There are so many things in the proposal that would serve Americans greatly.”

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

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

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

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