Thomas Rivera Schatz: “This debate is about whether the people of Puerto Rico are ready to join us as a full partner of this Union.”

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

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…

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.