Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I support H.R. 5956. The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands had a political union with the United States back in 1986. As part of that covenant, which has several different elements that make it unique among all of the territories as well as the other States, it authorized a local level of established programs to permit foreign workers to enter into the Northern Marianas. In 2008, I believe it was, Congress established this law to create a standard with the goal of actually trying to reduce the annual number of permits given to foreign workers--eventually, hopefully, to zero--to stabilize so that the workforce became more American. Three years later, they finally came up with a way of implementing that--relatively quick for U.S. Government standards. But the citizenship program that was established, the CW permit program, unfortunately, it doesn't quite work as we had thought it might do. So, in 2017, GAO reported that, since 2013, demand for these permits had doubled, and in fiscal year 2016, the demand exceeded the numerical cap that we have on these particular permits. The bottom line is simple.…”