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I want to thank this committee for taking a critical action last week by passing the Territories Health Care Improvement Act.

Thank you, Chairman Pallone, for your visit to Puerto Rico and the commitment you have shown many years for the island.

Those in poverty have literally no available income after they pay for their most basic necessities each month.

I think it would actually be really interesting to look at what the regulatory environment looked like back then and what the contracting process looked like back then and compare it to what it looks like today.

That NASA brand worldwide is second to none in my opinion.

I'm just thrilled that we have NASA in this country and in my home district.

This is a topic that's critical to both our national security and the integrity of our democracy.

I recently joined my colleagues on this Committee to introduce the bipartisan Securing American Science and Technology Act.

Thank you, Madam Chair, for holding this important hearing, and thank you to our panel today for your testimony and your tireless work to shed a light on this important issue.

It's important for us, as Congress, to continue to invest into resources like the Great Lakes to reduce biodiversity loss.

It's important for us, as Congress, to continue to invest into resources like the Great Lakes to reduce biodiversity loss.

The DSH money, for the knowledge of the Members, is disproportionate share hospital segment.

And I think that is finally common sense.

So, more than half a million American citizens living in Puerto Rico, they are not covered by Medicaid full programs as they were in the states just because of the lack of funding of the treatment of a state of Puerto Rico.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And before my time commences, I want to ask unanimous consent to put in the record a memorandum of the Medicaid financing in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands made by the Kaiser Foundation.

Unless Congress acts, we will be faced with potentially catastrophic damage to our Medicaid program and our healthcare system.

We are losing providers, we are losing doctors. Our professionals in the healthcare system are receiving less than half of whatever other professionals are receiving in the mainland.

All these additional sources of Federal funding for Puerto Rico's Medicaid program will expire in September of this year.