Thomas Rivera Schatz: “The status dilemma of 4 million American citizens residing in Puerto Rico is a civil rights issue.”

This Committee should use its jurisdictional power... to enact legislation that will do away with our second-class status as a colony.

One of the recommendations we have in prime cuts is to reduce the cost growth in the major defense acquisition portfolio by 20 percent over 5 years.

PROMESA does not need to be amended. It needs to be repealed.

The time has come for the United States Congress to grant equal treatment to the people of Puerto Rico through statehood and end the condition of indignity, inequality, and abuse to which its 3.1 million citizens are subjected to under an…