{"id":192680,"date":"2015-02-26T04:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=192680"},"modified":"2015-02-26T04:00:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T18:00:41","slug":"support-rabauliman-confirmation-commerce-chief-snowballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/support-rabauliman-confirmation-commerce-chief-snowballs\/","title":{"rendered":"Support for Rabauliman confirmation as Commerce chief snowballs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_192682\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192682\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Rabauliman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-192682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Rabauliman-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"Lawmakers and supporters pose with Mark O. Rabauliman, center, at a Senate hearing Wednesday on Rabauliman\u2019s nomination as Commerce secretary. (Joel D. Pinaroc)\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-192682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lawmakers and supporters pose with Mark O. Rabauliman, center, at a Senate hearing Wednesday on Rabauliman\u2019s nomination as Commerce secretary. (Joel D. Pinaroc)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No less than 17 testimonies from the public and private sectors expressed support for the confirmation of acting Commerce secretary Mark O. Rabauliman.<\/p>\n<p>Rabauliman on Wednesday faced a public hearing by the Senate Committee on Executive Appointments and Government Investigation following his appointment to the Commerce posts several months back.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers, former co-workers in various private institutions, and colleagues at the Commerce Department gave glimmering testimonies, focusing on the 39-year-old Rabauliman\u2019s curriculum vitae and his vast experience.<\/p>\n<p>In his opening statement in front of the committee, Rabauliman promised to focus on programs such as revolving funds, micro loans, and the promotion of proper regulatory processes in the department.<\/p>\n<p>He also promised to focus on the department\u2019s Central Statistics Division, noting that it needs to be beefed up owing to the importance of data when it comes to policy-making.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, he also said one of the top concerns he will tackle is how to revive entrepreneurship in the Commonwealth, adding that achieving a balance between foreign and domestic investments remain a \u201ctough challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the Senate public hearing, a session will be held to determine if Rabauliman will indeed be appointed the Commerce Department\u2019s top post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No less than 17 testimonies from the public and private sectors expressed support for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":192682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2038,2407],"class_list":["post-192680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-central-statistics-division","tag-commerce-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192680","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\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}