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During a March 25, 2010, House Armed Services Committee hearing [37] about the U.S. military installation in Guam, Johnson said to Admiral Robert F. Willard, Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, "My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize", to which Willard replied, "We don't anticipate that."
Guam has been represented in the United States House of Representatives by a non-voting delegate since 1972. [1] Its first delegate, Antonio Borja Won Pat , had been serving as the Washington Representative lobbying for a delegate since 1965, elected for four-year terms in 1964 and 1968. [ 2 ]
Michael Franklin Quitugua San Nicolas (born January 30, 1981) is a Guamanian Democratic Party politician, who served as the delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives for Guam's at-large congressional district from 2019 to 2023. [1]
In March 2010, a video in which Rep. Hank Johnson expressed his concern to Willard that the island of Guam might "capsize" and "tip over" due to overpopulation of military equipment and personnel went viral, garnering hundreds of thousands of views from thehill.com, hotair.com and latimes.com and was ultimately seen over three million times. [7]
James "Jim" Camacho Moylan (born July 18, 1962) is an American politician serving as the delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives for Guam. He became a member of the Guam Legislature in 2019 and was elected to the U.S House of Representatives in the 2022 United States midterm elections .
Madeleine Mary Zeien Bordallo (/ b ər ˈ d æ l j oʊ /; born May 31, 1933) is an American-Guamanian politician who served as the delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives for Guam's at-large congressional district from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2019.
On a good night, Chris Lopez, a bartender and server in Southern California for eight years, can make $200 to $400 in tips. So when the 31-year-old, who lives in Orange, first heard the news about ...
Governor Captain Willis Winter Bradley instituted the Guam Congress during the 1930s as an elected advisory body to the naval governor. On December 8, 1941, Imperial Japanese forces invaded Guam, beginning a three-year occupation of the island. The island was eventually retaken in 1944 during the intense Battle of Guam.