Gregorio Sablan: “An estimated 37 million workers - many employed in service industries and low wage jobs - cannot earn a single paid sick…”

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.

I want to commend Chairman Westerman and Ranking Member Grijalva for creating this Indo-Pacific Task Force to provide for a bipartisan process.

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

My amendment No. 606, which is included in En Bloc 5, creates a VA advisory committee for veterans living in the U.S. insular areas and in the Freely Associated States. Veterans in my district, especially, and in the other insular areas…