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Torres to reintroduce Marianas political status bill
Real estate news By Raymond A. Martinez
Thursday January 31, 2008
REPRESENTATIVE Stanley T. Torres yesterday said he will re-introduce his bill that calls for the creation of the Second Marianas Political Status Commission, But the bill will likely reduce the proposed funding for the commission from $200,000 to $100,000, said Torres, R-Saipan.
He said he was still unsure where the funds would come from. He said his bill does not conflict with the CNMI federalization measure that the U.S. Congress is expected to pass this year. “My concern is about the need to review the Covenant,” he said, referring to the U.S. law that created the CNMI in political union with America.
He said he is “looking forward to a better Covenant” through the “reexamination of the relations between the CNMI and the U.S.” This, he added, will enable the people of the islands “to fulfill their aspirations of full and meaningful self-governance.”
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