Gregorio Sablan: “Would it not be smarter and more administratively efficient to just put the Marianas into SNAP?”

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

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.

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 explained the path we are forging to fiscal, economic, and social stability in the Commonwealth.