the Serve America Act of 2009 authored by Senator Orrin Hatch and the late Senator Edward Kennedy.
My great fear that despite all of our best efforts, it is still not enough.
I worry that our effort, our U.S. dollars spent in that region are a small percent compared to the influence of China an...
I actually have a bill that addresses this. It is called the TAIPEI Act and I hope this committee will pick this bill up...
We should be going down to Puerto Rico for these hearings in November and December.
The Congress crafted PROMESA with bipartisan support but the goal of that was always to ensure that it regains financial...
Unfortunately, as significant as those are and the problems I think we have talked about even when we were in Puerto Ric...
If we want to learn from history, we don't go down this road.
It is very good to have disparative views, especially from those who are on the ground floor in what they are doing.
What we really should be talking about are ways in which we can actually make the system that you have possible for the ...
The proposed amendments that have been floated around here are not going anywhere.
The idea that they will be passed in the Senate or signed by a President is delusional, at best.
The second is to provide governmental stability, which hasn't happened necessarily in the last several years.
Changing it is not going to solve the issue at hand. It is like trying to expand home plate.
Without this Board, without the structure we have in hand, those three goals--the economic success, the governmental sta...
This entire process was always intended to be temporary.
The PROMESA legislation was unique in the annals of Congress.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman pro tem. I just want to quickly thank the witnesses for being here.
