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House Proceeding 12-11-07 on Dec 11th, 2007 :: 0:05:23 to 0:10:18
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Donna M. Christensen: p.m. today. the speaker pro tempore: for te what p urpose does the gentlelady from virgin islands rise? mrs. chriss.tensen: mr. speaketer, i rise to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 3079,

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Speech By: Donna M. Christensen

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Donna M. Christensen: with an amendment. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 3079, a bill to amend to establish a commonwealth of the northern mariana islands,

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Donna M. Christensen: and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentlelady from virgin islands, mrs. christensen, and the gentleman from utah, mr. bishop, will each control 20

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Donna M. Christensen: minutes.te the chair recognizes the gentlelady from the virgin islands. mrs. christensen: thank you, mr. speaker. and i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative

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Donna M. Christensen: days to girevise and ex tend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mrs. christensen: thank you. h.r. -- mr. speaker

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Donna M. Christensen: and colleagues, h.r. 3079 is legislation that i introduced, along with natural resources chairman nick rahall on july 18 of this year. the subcommittee held two hearings on the matters

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Donna M. Christensen: addressed in this bill. the first in april was an oversight hearing on the current economic, social, and al secuty conditions in the northern marianas. the second, in august, was a legislative

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Donna M. Christensen: field hearing, was the first time a committee convened business in the national territory. h.r. 3079, the people of the -- successive administrations, beginning with president reagan. it's no secret

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Donna M. Christensen: that beginning in the 1990's, they came under great consideration that left the territory with a nationwide, if not a worldwide investigation. reports by human rights organizations, complaints

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Donna M. Christensen: received from foreign governments, and a report issued by the former chairman and ranking member, george miller, dealing miscarriage of immigration policy, foreign -- which left foreign guest

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Donna M. Christensen: workers open to abuse by their employers. through congressional efforts to reform local immigration control throughout the 1990's, they were unsuccessful. congress was able to establish a federal

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Donna M. Christensen: office in the islands to educate foreign guest workers for their rights and a liasion between such populations and the government. today, national security is prominent to the argument -- to extend

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Donna M. Christensen: federal immigration laws to the sean maya. guam is her sister territory. as we know, since the end of world war ii, they've helped secure our nation. most notable, however, among all such

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Donna M. Christensen: islands is guam. as it is the home to many military bases. currently in agreement between the u.s. and japan would add $15 billion to guam's military infrastructure and would relocate to the

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Donna M. Christensen: island the third marine expeditionary force comprising 8,000 active duty soldiers, as well as a stationing of a global hawk surveillance system, the establishment of an army air defense

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Donna M. Christensen: battalion, and other things critical to the presence. guam has been described as a tip of the speer. as both the guam and the other island make up the mariana islands chain. if guam

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Donna M. Christensen: is the tip of the speer, then the sean maya is the other half. lastly, this legislation would provide a nonvoting delegate for the only u.s. jurisdiction in our country without any form

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Donna M. Christensen: of representation inin congress. similar legislation has been favorably reported by the natural resources committee in three previous congresses and have received no further consideration

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Donna M. Christensen: by the house. it's time we provide the same level of representation afforded to other u.s. territories. in closing, h.r. 3079 is legislation that is necessary on several fronts. it would provide

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Donna M. Christensen: a stable immigration policy to rebuild the economy, augment and strengthen the future of the economy, increase the opportunities and skills of local residents to fill private sector employment

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Donna M. Christensen: needs, safeguard the existing foreign guest worker population from employer abuse, and secure the region i n the interest of national security and give the sean maya representation in

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Donna M. Christensen: congress. mr. speaker, at this time i'd reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves her time. the gentleman from utah. mr. bishop: thank you, mr. speaker.

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Rob Bishop: h.r. 3079, as amended, has received much support from the bush administration, as well as the northern marianas elected representative, a republican. mr. tinorio has worked hard to bring forth a bill

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