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.

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.

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…

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.

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

Give the people of Puerto Rico the freedom to choose a final political solution by providing a fair and legal self-determination process based on non-territorial, non-colonial final permanent options.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Full democracy has not been achieved in Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricans who live in the island cannot vote for the President, nor can we elect senators or voting members in the House of Representatives.

Those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history.

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

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