Gregorio Sablan: “It is really very important for us to keep the costs of college down.”

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?

Renewing the financial provisions of the Compact is essential to our nation's security posture in the Indo-Pacific region.