Gregorio Sablan

My second amendment to this Supplemental Appropriations Act increases emergency food assistance for the Marianas. As I explained earlier, our islands were struck by not one, but two typhoons last year, one right after another--Typhoon…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 6, line 13, insert ``(increased by $15,000,000)'' after the dollar amount. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant…

I have no further statements to make. I ask for support of my amendment and the underlying bill, H.R. 268, and I yield back the balance of my time The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from the…

I want to thank the conferees on H.R. 6157 for rejecting a proposal by the Trump administration to use this appropriation measure to impose a new $700 fee for businesses in the Northern Mariana Islands that employ foreign workers under the…

I ask for support of this legislation. I just want to say if it is really 4,600 miles, then that is the equivalent of a round trip between San Francisco and Honolulu, a distance which I frequently fly and don't actually enjoy sitting down…

Again, I encourage support for this bill, and having no further speakers, I yield back the balance of my time.

May I inquire how much time remains. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from the Northern Mariana Islands has 15 minutes remaining.

Lacking a meaningful deterrent, there has been an intensification of aggressive anti-union campaigns.

However, the NLRA fails to enforce workers' rights with meaningful remedies.

The National Labor Relations Act protects, by law the right of workers to form unions in order to rectify the inequality of bargaining power between employees and employers.

Republicans have relentlessly tried to undermine the pillars of Americans' retirement security. The Trump budget alone calls for $500 billion in cuts to Medicare, almost $1.5 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, and $72 billion in cuts to Social…

NEPA empowers ordinary Americans like my constituents.

If NEPA had existed in the 1950s, do you think that the U.S. Government would have conducted the atomic and hydrogen bombs on Bikini Atoll and Micronesia?

The opioid crisis has ravaged communities across the United States.

Maintaining these important gains is paramount in the response to this crisis.

We know that those with substance use disorders come from all walks of life.

We should examine all the impacts that substance use disorder has on families and all the tools we have to help.

Cutting the prospective foreign workforce in half will have an immediate and profoundly negative impact on the Mariana's economy.

An estimated 37 million workers - many employed in service industries and low wage jobs - cannot earn a single paid sick day.

Approximately 41 percent of hourly workers receive their work schedules only seven days in advance.

Lack of paid family leave policy costs workers an estimated $20 billion in lost wages each year.

Congress must address the multiemployer pension crisis and we must act soon.

unless Congress acts, the multiemployer pension program is likely to run out of money by the end of 2025.

I have no further speakers. I ask my friends and my colleagues to please support this lifesaving amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 713, line 4, after the dollar amount insert: ``(increased by $500,000) (decreased by $500,000)''. The…