Madam Speaker. I rise today to share encouraging news from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. As many of my colleagues know. I have been fighting for years to ensure that employers in the CNMIan American territory in the Pacificpay their workers an honest wage. But for years. we were blocked from reforming the broken labor and immigration system in the Marianas. The corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoffs collusion with thenMajority Leader Tom DeLay and others here in Congress meant that the CNMIs sweatshopbased economy persisted for almost 2 decades after we were first made aware of abuses there. Eventually.
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