Gregorio Sablan, U.S. Representative, Northern Mariana Islands

Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan is the first and only person to represent the people of the Northern Mariana Islands in the U.S. House of Representatives. He began service on January 6, 2009, and has been reelected to office seven times.
In the 118th Congress, the Congressman serves on the Natural Resources Committee and the Committee on Education and the Workforce. Within Natural Resources, he is the Co-Chair of the Indo-Pacific Task Force, a bipartisan group that oversees issues relating to U.S. territories and Freely Associated States (FAS) in the Indo-Pacific region. Congressman Sablan is also a member of the Federal Lands Subcommittee, which oversees all national parks and federal lands, and the Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee, which oversees all matters regarding Native American tribes and insular areas. Within the Committee on Education and the Workforce, the Congressman is a member of the Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee, which oversees K-12 education, and the Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee, which oversees college education and job programs. For more on Congressman Sablan’s committee activity, visit the Committees and Caucuses page.
During his eight terms in office, Congressman Sablan has been responsible for legislation increasing funding to Northern Mariana Islands schools and individual students, to the Commonwealth Healthcare Center, and for water and sewer projects in his district. He expanded federal food and energy assistance for low-income families in the Marianas. And his legislative work resulted in the return of ownership of submerged lands around the Northern Marianas to the people he represents. Congressman Sablan has also taken an active hand in easing the transition from local to federal management of immigration in the Northern Marianas through assistance to individuals, working closely with the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Labor on implementing policy, and by enacting into law extensions of a number of transitional policies. For more on the Congressman’s record of success, visit the Legislative Accomplishments page.