Minute to explain. Everyone will probably remember that mitt romney promised in 2012 that the first thing hewas going to do on his first day of in office was to defund obamacare. But maybe you dont remember what he said, the second thing he was going to do. He was going to defund both the national endowment, that was the second thing was going to do on his first day in office. These endowments are in the sights of the republicans because they would like to get rid of them. Mister chairman, this is a good amendment but the one thing thats missing is a sentence calling for increase in the funding of these endowments. We are getting less money now than when obama came into office the cause of the sequester and i dont know if its possible to add a sentence. So. Hang on. For fear of reopening other issues, i think im going to referthis to the technical side. I think your motion speaks to the issue of support. We will let the technical drafters decide on whether that can be included, okay .
The CNMI’s exemption from the Jones Act was a major selling point yesterday in Gov. Arnold I. Palacios sales pitch at the four-day 2023 SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington, D.C., where he tried to drum up interest in the CNMI as an investment destination among potential investors.