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Fitial in DC to witness ceremony
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Posted on Jan 05 2009
Gov. Benigno Fitial has left for Washington D.C., where he will witness the swearing in of Gregorio “Kilili” Sablan as the CNMI’s first ever congressional delegate.
Sablan will be sworn in Tuesday, Washington D.C. time (Wednesday on Saipan).
While in Washington, Fitial is also expected to meet with other officials including those from the Office of Insular Affairs.
The governor will be accompanied by his wife, Josie, and special legal counsel Howard P. Willens.
Besides Fitial, others who will be attending Sablan’s swearing in include outgoing CNMI Resident Rep. Pete A. Tenorio, Chief Justice Miguel S. Demapan; and Edward DLG. Pangelinan, the first resident representative of the CNMI to the United States,
All members of the incoming 111th Congress will be sworn-in on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2009. U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will preside over the ceremonial event in the Rayburn Room just off the main floor of the House of Representatives.
Family and friends will accompany Sablan for his swearing in. Wife Andrea, son Jesse and daughter Patricia are all traveling to be with Sablan when he takes his oath of office.
Sablan has also invited his friend and niece Merced Aldan-Ada to be present and his uncle Joe Borja. James D. Livingstone, a former assistant attorney general in the Northern Marianas, who served as counsel to the Commonwealth Election Commission while Sablan was executive director and who is now a prosecuting attorney with the State of Massachusetts, is another of Sablan’s friends who will be on hand.
