Gregorio Sablan

I can't and my family can't afford to send me to college and so I am going to go and do my 6 years and use the G.I. Bill to get an education.

We need to start investing in our people.

This would allow the people in the Northern Mariana Islands to have greater access to school to get a college education where they can't otherwise.

I would argue that any approach that would soften annual catch limits, weaken accountability measures, or make enforcement of fishery laws and regulations more difficult is not in the long-term interests of those who depend on Gulf red…

I hope that this hearing will bring further attention to those ideas as alternatives to the status quo.

Conservative, science-based management of this fishery remains critical to achieving sustainable harvest levels.

Protecting these and other special places from destruction is critical to scientific discovery and natural resource management.

Every single dollar invested in the refuge system returns an average of $4 to surrounding communities.

This is one thing that I'm so proud of with Congress is that constituents would bring their grievances with their government.

The habitat conserved in the refuge system is one of the best tools we have to recover endangered species.

When the House acts this way, it's some of the most brightest, proudest moments for me--that I am a part of this House when Congress, when Members of this House do something to right a wrong. And in this case, not just right a wrong, but…

At this time I yield as much time as he may consume to a Vietnam War veteran, the distinguished gentleman from American Samoa (Mr. Faleomavaega). (Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

We support the bill. I have no further speakers, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Before I yield back my time, I'd also like to thank the gentleman from American Samoa for his support of the bill. And because he mentioned Tinian, the Enola Gay and the Boxcar did fly from Tinian to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki and ended…

This is a very important issue before us today. The Senate amended H.R. 588 to allow any new memorial in D.C. to acknowledge donors. The original bill passed by the House only allowed donor acknowledgement for the Vietnam Memorial Visitor…

This legislation provides commonsense access to maintain water facilities within the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Area. These water features were present prior to the congressional designation of ``wilderness'' and are…

We will need even more data and resources to understand the impacts climate change is having on our oceans.

Data is insufficient to manage fish stocks sustainably without large precautionary buffers.

No one could make a living for very long fishing without significant investment from the Federal government.

I also rise in support of H.R. 573. The bill conveys to the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas the 3 miles of submerged lands surrounding each of our 14 islands. I want to thank leaders from both sides of the aisle, Chairman Doc…

50 years ago, the first school to offer secondary education in the Northern Mariana Islands was officially named Hopwood Junior-Senior High School, in honor of Admiral Herbert Gladstone Hopwood, commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet. In…

the two best things that Congress has ever done for the place I am from, and one is to approve the permanent political status relationship we have with the United States.

Thank you very much. Mr. Speaker, I'd also like to express my deepest condolences to the people of Hawaii for their loss of a great Senator and a great American. I would not be here today standing in the well of the House if not for…

I rise, as many others have, to offer my deepest condolences to the children, families, and community of Newtown, Connecticut. They are enduring a terrible tragedy in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. But merely to offer…

if anybody questions the scientific facts, I have a place in Micronesia, where I am from. Come over. I will show you about climate change, about rising sea levels, and the change it is making to the islands.