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I thank the chairwoman for yielding. Madam Chair, I cannot imagine. I come from a district where we are the typhoon alley. A little over a year ago, the second largest storm since 1935 that hit the United States hit my island, and that was…
Across America, working parents are struggling to make sure their young children have decent, high-quality child care--at an affordable price.
The cost of child care in America has gone up 2,000 percent in the last 40 years.
I urge a ``yes'' vote on this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Payne). The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from the Northern Mariana Islands (Mr. Sablan) that the House suspend…
I would like to commend Representative Thompson and Representative Wittman for their work on this bill. Mr. Speaker, I have no further requests for time, and would inquire whether my colleague has any remaining speakers on his side. I…
I appreciate the efforts of the Committee to make PROMESA a more effective law that can better meet the needs of Puerto Rico.
But, you see, these Micronesian Islands, yes, we probably contributed to some of this debris. But we are not responsible for that debris, and that thing is floating and growing.
It is too late to go back and point fingers of who is responsible for some of these problems, but let's hope and see that when, after all is said and done, that more is done than is said.
Republicans and Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee agree that now is the time to fix Medicaid funding in the insular areas. H.R. 2328, reported out of the committee in July, addresses the serious funding shortfall all the…
Instead of combating cold war concerns, however, today's challenges are coming from other Pacific powers who want a realignment of allegiance in their favor.
I called for this hearing believing the time has come to begin defining a new era for the United States relationship with some of our closest allies.
The U.S. neglect of our relationship with Palau and the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia could well be encouraging these friends to turn elsewhere.
Today, many children are prevented from reaching their full potential because they are suffering from the significant, long-term effects of trauma.
We can all agree that every child in the United States from the Marianas to Maine deserve quality instructions from quality teachers.
Good news for the Northern Mariana Islands and all the insular areas: The Territories Health Care Improvement Act was introduced on Tuesday, addressing the Medicaid cliff our areas face when special ObamaCare funding ends this year…
My amendment No. 337, which is included in the en bloc amendment No. 13, clarifies that students holding or expecting to receive their associate degree can apply for the Technology and National Security Fellowship. Section 239 of H.R. 2500…
When Congress passed the Affordable Care Act our country took an historic step forward on the path toward healthcare justice by protecting millions more from discrimination in healthcare settings.
The Mariana Islands and four other U.S. insular areas face a Medicaid ``cliff''. Funding included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act expires this year. Two-thirds of our annual Medicaid funding disappears, gone, putting…
My amendment is intended to ensure that the Northern Mariana Islands Nutritional Assistance Program has enough funding, so that household income eligibility standards and benefit levels currently in place for FY19 are kept in place…
Because we do know that it is a question of when, not if, the next storm will hit.
I thank the gentleman for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, 12 years ago, Congress enacted legislation extending U.S. immigration law to my district, the Northern Mariana Islands; and for my 11 years here in Congress, I have worked to make…
8 months after Typhoon Mangkhut and 7 months after Super Typhoon Yutu, we are finally ready to send a disaster relief bill to the President for signature. Of course, this has taken longer than any of us might wish. But I want to use my…
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