News Releases
Aug 25, 2019
THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS - August 23, 2019
$116m+ in FEMA PA aid to date • Thanking our port officers • Advocating for our CW workers
Aug 18, 2019
THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS - August 16, 2019
Support for indigenous languages • EDA disaster grants now open • Historic preservation funds also • Keeping Brand USA helps recovery • Working to increase tourism • Case-by-case on immigration • Protect health care rights for all • Action sought on VA claims errors • Thank you for your service • Wounded Warrior director visits
Aug 18, 2019
Support for indigenous languages
The Native American Language Vitalization Act, which I introduced today, will help ensure Chamorro and Refaluwasch continue to be spoken by future generations in the Marianas.
Aug 18, 2019
EDA disaster grants now open
Disaster funds from the Economic Development Administration – funds I ensured the Marianas could apply for in Public Law 116-20 – are now available.
Aug 18, 2019
Historic preservation funds also
The application period for $50 million in emergency supplemental historic preservation funding we appropriated in Public Law 116-20 is now open for areas hit by Hurricanes Michael and Florence and Super Typhoon Yutu.
Aug 18, 2019
Keeping Brand USA helps recovery
With tourism still recovering from Super Typhoon Yutu, preventing the loss of Brand USA is critical, because this federal program partners with the Marianas Visitors Authority to promote our islands in key markets in Asia.
Aug 18, 2019
Protect health care rights for all
Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Joe Kennedy (D-MA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), and I wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Azar in strong opposition to a proposed rule rolling back key Obamacare protections.
Aug 18, 2019
Action sought on VA claims errors
On August 12, I joined my colleagues on the House and Senate Veterans Affairs Committees in a bipartisan letter to Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie about the Inspector General’s audit report that found the VA inappropriately rejected or denied payment for non-VA emergency care for approximately 60,800 veterans between April 1, 2017 and September 30, 2017. The
Aug 14, 2019
Fostering tourism with education
The Northern Marianas College’s Community Development Institute included your congressional office in their new educational tourism program.
Aug 14, 2019
IRS assistance in the Pacific
Internal Revenue Service staff Gayvial D. James and Dee Robinson Rutkowski visited the congressional office Monday.
