It is Phoenix all over again. People are having their appointments canceled at the last minute.
Now, we have, I think, without exaggeration, a five-alarm fire going on in my State with our veterans because of the way...
It is not going to happen if we keep cutting funds to the reservations because of sequestration.
You have to listen, as Senator Murkowski said, to the children's ideas.
We have not really solved the problems. We are still continuing the discussions. In the meantime, we are losing our chil...
We need to work together to find solutions that will help our communities heal.
The present system, the status quo, is not working.
I would like to see this not be a black eye on American citizens, and Puerto Rico be accepted as equal.
I personally think statehood would do it.
This is a challenge to Congress. And the reason we are having these hearings is trying to get somebody to start talking ...
When I spoke in this committee room at a hearing earlier this year, I used the term 'colonialism by another name.'
I have to say you said it very well--couldn't be said better.
I personally don't believe--I have said all along, and don't get upset with me--if you are not going to be a state, you ...
The status quo cannot exist--the unfairness to Americans not being listened to by this Congress.
We must show the 3.7 million Americans living in Puerto Rico... that those of us attending today's hearing still hear th...
The out-migration of what I call the more talented people in Puerto Rico into the mainland is devastating.
I want to congratulate my Resident Commissioner, Mr. Pierluisi.
It is our duty and we honor that duty to listen today.
