{"id":176612,"date":"2014-08-15T04:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T18:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=176612"},"modified":"2014-08-15T04:00:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T18:00:53","slug":"governor-host-dinner-us-lawmakers-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/governor-host-dinner-us-lawmakers-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor to host dinner for US lawmakers on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting members of the U.S. House of Representatives with oversight on insular areas will be treated to an island dinner on Sunday night, with Gov. Eloy S. Inos and other local officials hosting the welcome reception at the beach side of Fiesta Resort &#038; Spa.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. House Natural Resources Committee chair Doc Hastings of Washington and Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs chair John Fleming of Louisiana are among those expected to be a part of the so-called congressional delegation, accompanied by the CNMI\u2019s own delegate, Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (Ind-MP).<\/p>\n<p>The governor said the dinner reception is a \u201csocial event\u201d and there is no formal meeting scheduled, although he hopes to bring up the issue of still pending bills in Congress that extend the CNMI\u2019s exemption from accepting asylum applicants beyond 2014.  <\/p>\n<p>The same bills also extend the CNMI-only investor visa program and the CNMI and Guam\u2019s exemption from the H visa caps beyond 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Inos said these are time-sensitive bills that the CNMI needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongressman Kilili is marshalling that,\u201d he said, but will also personally ask for U.S. lawmakers\u2019 support to the CNMI bills.<\/p>\n<p>Inos said the congressional delegation will also be special guests at the opening of the permanent Garapan public market on Monday morning.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting members of the U.S. House of Representatives with oversight on insular areas will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,1080,320],"class_list":["post-176612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-fiesta-resort-spa","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}