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Given the lack of funding, we are asking them to do an impossible job

I ask the subcommittee to provide robust funding to the National Science Foundation, as well as NASA programs to support its operation.

I respectfully urge the subcommittee to include language, just like you did last year, directing the U.S. Department of Justice to prioritize law enforcement personnel and resources in the U.S. Caribbean.

We are advocating for overall funding of all the programs to $105 million

Thank you, Chairman Serrano, for your leadership in the committee and the support of Puerto Rico.

NOAA has begun to develop a new agency initiative, a SASH prevention program.

Every employee deserves a workplace free of sexual assault and harassment.

I think this issue of sexual assault and sexual harassment is very serious. It cannot be tolerated in a Federal workforce.

If we were in the SNAP program, we will never be here.

These three disasters did not create the challenges with NAP. However, they exacerbated these challenge.

I will be requesting an increase in the block grant for Fiscal Year 2021 that is needed for the island.

I think this is the right time to bring them back.

We were not aware of the seismic activity on the Island.

Congresswoman, the intent was to provide the training materials that the pilots would need to fly the airplane, rather than try to educate them on the system details.

The Federal Government needs to find ways to facilitate, not hinder, the process

It's time to extend to the American citizens of Puerto Rico the equal treatment, rights, and respect they deserve.

The only real and permanent solution to the fiscal problems of Puerto Rico before this Committee today is statehood.

So, it is time to bail out the people of Puerto Rico.