The current PREPA debt sits at roughly $8.9 billion.

The island cannot afford a delay any longer.

the 3.4 million American citizens residing in Puerto Rico need assurance that there is a solution to this troubling issue.

serious decisions need to be made by leaders in the government of Puerto Rico.

For decades, PREPA has put politics before basic, logical standards for operating an electric utility.

The VA continues to deny claims for Blue Water Navy veterans, despite studies showing higher rates of cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma among shipboard veterans.

one of the issues I have focused on in my career and my actual first piece of legislation I ever signed into law had to do with securing someone's ID and their personal information.

I personally would like to applaud your decision to adopt the same electronic healthcare system as the DOD.

This year I introduced legislation to right this wrong, H.R. 299, the Blue Water Navy Veterans Act, which currently has over 270 bipartisan cosponsors.

I appreciate the fact that you acknowledge that there is other science out there.

Thank you again for taking some time today.

If someone calls in to make an appointment and it takes them 2 months, where is the confusion?

Here at the federal level we have to ensure that Congress makes it a requirement for the DOD to say that, 'You will outline your certifications to either match what is acceptable within the State or somehow establish those partnerships,'…

Mr. Speaker, during rollcall Vote number 178 on H.R. 1353, I mistakenly recorded my vote as ``no'' when I should have voted ``yes.'' ____________________

Ineffective. They've accomplished nothing.

He should apologize, not only to President Obama, but to the American people.

The fact that they cooperated is not any -- is self evident.

However, repealing the ACA and cutting Medicaid by nearly a trillion dollars over the next 10 years, will do nothing but undermine our efforts to treat Americans who are suffering from an opioid addiction.