{"id":48920,"date":"1999-11-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/953102fe-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"1999-11-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-24T00:00:00","slug":"9531030f-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/9531030f-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"House leadership in the 12th Legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House leadership in the 12th Legislature<\/p>\n<p>Speaker &#8211; Heinz S. Hofschneider (Saipan, Precinct 3)<\/p>\n<p>Vice Speaker &#8211; Diego T. Benavente (Saipan, 2)<\/p>\n<p>Majority Floor Leader &#8211; Jesus T. Attao (Saipan, 3)<\/p>\n<p>Committee Chairmen<\/p>\n<p>Ways and Means &#8211; William S. Torres (Saipan, 3)<\/p>\n<p>Health, Education and Welfare &#8211; Tomas B. Pangelinan (Saipan, 4)<\/p>\n<p>Public Utilities, Transportation and Communications &#8211; David M. Apatang (Saipan, 1)<\/p>\n<p>Natural Resources &#8211; Martin B. Ada (Saipan, 1)<\/p>\n<p>Federal and Foreign Relations &#8211; Norman S. Palacios (Tinian)<\/p>\n<p>Labor and Immigration &#8211; open*<\/p>\n<p>Commerce and Tourism &#8211; open*<\/p>\n<p>Judiciary and Governmental Operations &#8211; open*<\/p>\n<p>* Reps. Benigno R. Fitial, Oscar M. Babauta and Stanley T. Torres will be given opportunity to choose from any of the above committees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker &#8211; Heinz S. Hofschneider (Saipan, Precinct 3)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48920","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}