{"id":224108,"date":"2016-03-29T06:06:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T20:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=224108"},"modified":"2016-03-29T06:06:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T20:06:06","slug":"bordallo-supports-lawsuit-war-reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bordallo-supports-lawsuit-war-reparations\/","title":{"rendered":"Bordallo supports lawsuit for war reparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HAG\u00c5T\u00d1A, Guam\u2014Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo released the following statement on the announcement made by Senator Frank Blas Jr. to sue the federal government for war reparations. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI continue to support any effort to resolve the issue of war claims for our man\u2019amko who endured suffering of the occupation during World War II. Though I have been successful in passing Guam War Claims legislation five times in the House, our efforts have faced significant opposition from conservatives in the Senate. As I stated in my Congressional Address, I welcome and support any effort to resolve war claims through a federal lawsuit. I commend Senator Blas and the bi-partisan group he\u2019s assembled for leading this effort and offer my support to their efforts. However, I will not cease in my determination in doing all that I can to move this issue forward in Congress despite the persistent opposition. That is why I have reintroduced H.R. 44, the Guam World War II Loyalty Recognition Act because resolving war claims for the survivors of the occupation is the right thing to do and I hope that we are able to accomplish this goal by any means necessary.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAG\u00c5T\u00d1A, Guam\u2014Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo released the following statement on the announcement made by Senator&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10577,10578,65,10579],"class_list":["post-224108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-congressional-address","tag-guam-war-claims","tag-house","tag-senator-blas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224108","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}