{"id":340539,"date":"2021-03-19T06:05:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T20:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=340539"},"modified":"2021-03-19T06:05:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T20:05:13","slug":"senate-confirms-faisao-tenorio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/senate-confirms-faisao-tenorio\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms Faisao, Tenorio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate confirmed the appointment of Melvin Faisao as a member of the Northern Marianas Housing Corp. board of directors and Janice A. Tenorio as a member of the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. board of directors during a session on Tinian last Friday. <\/p>\n<p>All nine senators voted for the confirmation of Faisao and Tenorio. Sens. Paul A. Manglona (Ind-Rota) and Edith E. Deleon Guerrero (D-Saipan) appeared at the session via Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>Faisao\u2019s term will be determined upon the organization of the NMHC board of directors. He is a former member of the House of Representatives and former secretary of the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Tenorio will serve a four-year term. She is a former chairwoman of the Board of Education.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Ralph DLG Torres and Lt. Gov. Arnold I. Palacios appointed Faisao last Jan. 29 to serve on the NMHC board of directors representing the third Senatorial District (Saipan).<\/p>\n<p>Torres and Palacios appointed Tenorio last Jan. 25 to serve on the CUC board of directors representing the Third Senatorial District (Saipan).<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Committee on Executive Appointments &amp; Government Investigations chaired by Sen. Francisco Cruz (R-Tinian) recommended the confirmation of Faisao and Tenorio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate confirmed the appointment of Melvin Faisao as a member of the Northern Marianas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":340595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340539","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}