Thomas Rivera Schatz

Well, we have always supported a balanced budget amendment, but, again, all of this could be done. It is a political will issue.

We agree, that burden should not be passed on to the next generation along with a lot of other burdens.

We have certainly seen a lot of wasteful expenditures over the years, but the fact that we spent all this money and come up with zero in terms of anything being sent to Yucca Mountain is certainly one of the largest examples of wasteful…

The Yucca Mountain project owes its ultimate demise to years of delays, manipulation and obstructionism by Senate majority leader Harry Reid, and the exigencies of election-year politics.

If a program is going to be proposed and funded by the Federal government, there should be a way to determine whether that program is achieving its goals, and if it is not, it should be eliminated.

It is my deepest conviction that a true democratic path to self-determination for the people of Puerto Rico must be forged first by Puerto Ricans.

Lack of consensus equals lack of legitimacy.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

This debate is about whether the people of Puerto Rico are ready to join us as a full partner of this Union.

I am convinced that everybody in this room wants to get the job done, our Resident Commissioner, the House of Puerto Rico, but if the language is clear, absolutely clear, nobody can have any doubts about it, and I believe it makes a better…

The status dilemma of 4 million American citizens residing in Puerto Rico is a civil rights issue.