VISITING members of the U.S. House of Representatives joined U.S. Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan in a tour of Tinian on Tuesday.
The purpose of the congressional visit, according to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, was to meet with local leaders and Department of Defense officials to discuss issues pertaining to the ongoing military construction on Tinian.
The congressional delegation was led by U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Florida, who chairs the House Appropriation Committee’s Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies.
With her were U.S. Congressman Ed Case, D-Hawaii, and U.S. Congressman Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa.
They met with CNMI Bureau of Military Affairs officials, members of the Tinian Legislative Delegation led by Senate President Jude U. Hofschneider and Tinian Mayor Edwin Aldan.
The U.S. lawmakers were accompanied by representatives from the Congressional Appropriations Liaison Office.
Gov. Ralph DLG Torres, according to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, was “unavailable due to being off-island” on Tuesday.
Variety learned that the U.S. congressional delegation toured the site of the divert airfield project, the Tinian airport, the docks, and the breakwater at Tinian Harbor.
A U.S. congressional delegation or CODEL led by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Florida and chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, with Rep. Ed Case, D-Hawaii, and Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, visited Tinian on Tuesday. U.S. Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan of the CNMI was on Tinian to greet his colleagues and join them on a tour of the Air Force divert airfield, North Field, and the Tinian harbor along with Joint Region Marianas Commander Rear Adm. Benjamin Nicholson and Tinian leadership. “I thank the CODEL for their visit, project oversight, and for listening to the concerns of our local officials,” Kilili said.
