Jenniffer González-Colón: “Thank you, Secretary, for being here, for your time.”

Without undue delay, we can and should exercise oversight and move the agreements forward.

Under the terms of the Freely Associated agreements, compact citizens can migrate and work in the United States but they are not U.S. citizens or nationals.

We are grateful to Chairman Westerman for stewardship of COFA renewal so far.

I have introduced legislation that will add these crops as priority research areas for the Department of Agriculture.