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I remind you that in Puerto Rico the FMAP we have, it is 55/45.

Unfortunately, our resident commissioner, Pedro Pierluisi, does not even issue one statement against whistleblower retaliation that occurs very often at this facility.

Congress cannot in good conscience criticize Puerto Rico without acknowledging the fact that Congress shares culpability for the territory's problems.

Because Congress needs to act--

The problem, Mr. Sablan, is that as I was saying, in Alaska they held a referendum, a plebiscite, years before they came a state.

I believe that the rules in the country should apply in the same way for creditors and debtors across the country.

To me, this is a political will situation, not a legal question.

Now, looking at the future, what do you want Puerto Rico to be?

Puerto Rico, with all due respect to the District of Columbia, is not the District of Columbia.

How can anybody that says that they believe in democracy and that they want the U.S. citizenship, not want to participate in the democratic process of the nation they are citizens with?

The problem is that we don't get action from Congress.

I wouldn't have the gall to go any place and say, 'I am a Democrat, I believe in democracy, but I don't want to have the right to vote or the right to representation.'

I strongly believe that there ought to be fiscal responsibility on the part of the territory.

The Supreme Court of the United States, ever since the beginning of the 20th century, decided that Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory.

In order to attain that, there ought to be, in my opinion, number one, a process by which majority rules in the territory.

I believe that we need to sit down and come up with a new economic arrangement.

I firmly believe that statehood, economically, is not the alternative.

Regarding the status issue, as you well know, statehood won the 2012 plebiscite.