Thomas Rivera Schatz: “The government needs to be more out of the way rather than trying to force its own view on how jobs should be created”

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.

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…

PROMESA has exacerbated the economic situation on the island putting a magnifying glass over the 121 years of colonialism.

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