Thank you, Representative Wittman, for yielding, I really appreciate that.

The diesel fuel oil and coal plants have to go, and that is my message to PREPA and to the Fiscal Board.

Four years after Hurricane Maria, 1 year since the obligation of over $10 billion in different funds to build a better grid, 3 months after a much-proclaimed contract for Transmission and Distribution, this has ended the people's patience.

if you fail to study a specific source or route of exposure, could the risk be adequately determined?

If you don't have power in some rural communities, they will not have water usage at the same time.

I think there are several questions that need to be answered.

I hope this hearing provides better guidance to all of us in addressing this issue, in answering what is going to happen when the people of Puerto Rico are going to have power, and when PREPA is going to submit to FEMA all the necessary…

Can it handle any other situation?

On October 4, 2021, Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi publicly recognized that AES-PR is ready to convert its thermal plant to another source of energy.

What does it mean to your members, and transit organizations that serve new transit routes created in response to COVID-19, that we are unable to provide long-term certainty and funding?

By allowing us to tap into potential offshore wind resources, H.R. 1689 would help the territories address high energy costs, diversify our fuel sources, and end our reliance on foreign petroleum imports.

This is a bipartisan legislation that would apply the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to the submerged lands off the five U.S. territories for renewable energy purposes.

I, therefore, hope that we can once again work in a bipartisan manner to move H.R. 1689 out of the Committee and finally get it across the finish line.

This bipartisan legislation would apply the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to the submerged lands off the five U.S. territories for renewable energy purposes.

Thank you, Mr. Garret Graves, for yielding the time, and your help in many Puerto Rican issues.

I strongly disagree with his position, but this is part of being part of America. Not everybody will think alike.

the Act of Admission was filed by Resident Commissioner Jennifer Gonzalez Colon.

I can see that for other issues, 50 percent is good enough to elect the President of the United States, but 54 percent is not enough to show the majority of the will of the island.