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On Tuesday, the Small Business Committee held a hearing entitled “AI on Main Street: How AI is Shaping the Future of Small Business. The hearing focused on how small businesses around the country are beginning to adopt AI into their business practices, what allows some businesses to take advantage of AI tools versus those that never get past the experimentation phase, the complex ways AI alters the labor needs of small businesses, and what policy choices should be made to maximize the benefits of AI for small business’ competitiveness and for their workers.
We are always proud to see people from the CNMI achieving great things and representing our islands with distinction.
On Thursday, I welcomed the Polistico and Lenteja families to their Washington congressional office. The group met with me and enjoyed a staff-led tour of the U.S. Capitol. From left are Josephine and Tito Polistico, who are originally from Tinian and now reside in Delaware; Joe Lenteja and his children, Jaedon, Adriel, and Ysabella. Jaedon recently completed his first year at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Adriel is entering his first year at the Naval Academy Preparatory School, and Ysabella is a rising senior at Tinian High School.
The Commonwealth’s Criminal Justice Planning Agency has been awarded two Department of Justice grants to support delinquency prevention efforts and strengthen the CNMI’s criminal justice programs. CJPA received $238,550 through the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program to support crime prevention efforts and enhance criminal justice initiatives across the Commonwealth. CJPA also received $99,190 from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to support juvenile justice and delinquency prevention programs for youth throughout the Marianas.
I joined Representatives Young Kim (R-CA), Don Bacon (R-NE), and Pat Harrigan (R-NC) in co-hosting a special screening of L
Last week, I had the great opportunity to meet with Members of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia: Senator Andy Cho
On Wednesday, I managed the House Floor in the Committee of the Whole as the House considered a
