{"id":245044,"date":"2017-01-25T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=245044"},"modified":"2017-01-25T06:00:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T20:00:43","slug":"bordallo-statement-wilsons-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bordallo-statement-wilsons-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Bordallo statement on Wilson\u2019s nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HAG\u00c5T\u00d1A, Guam<\/strong>\u2014Delegate Madeleine Z. Bordallo (D-GU) released the following statement yesterday on the nomination of Heather Wilson\u2019s as secretary of the Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI welcome the news that President Trump has nominated my former colleague, Heather Wilson, to be the next secretary of the Air Force.\u00a0 As a veteran of the Air Force and Air Force Academy she has a keen understanding of the importance of airpower in our current national security environment. I appreciated the opportunity to serve with her on the House Armed Services Committee and I look forward to better understanding her agenda, if she is confirmed as secretary of the Air Force. As co-chair of the House Air Force Caucus I look forward to working with her to ensure that the importance of airpower is evident in the department\u2019s budgets and strategic documents.\u00a0 I think Heather is the right person to lead that effort under President Trump\u2019s administration.\u201d <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAG\u00c5T\u00d1A, Guam\u2014Delegate Madeleine Z. Bordallo (D-GU) released the following statement yesterday on the nomination of&#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":[10416,51,15254,15255],"class_list":["post-245044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-air-force-academy","tag-guam","tag-heather-wilson","tag-president-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245044","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=245044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}