Gregorio Sablan: “the two best things that Congress has ever done for the place I am from, and one is to approve the permanent political…”

I wish to associate myself with the statements including the discussion of the legal hurdles of allowing citizens of territories to fully and finally exercise their rights as Americans.

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.

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