I am pleased to report that Puerto Rico is emerging from a challenging period with strength and optimism into a new era of stability evidenced by the island's economic upswing.

I will try to be brief, but----

For about 3 years, the spending that happened in Puerto Rico was emergency spending by FEMA.

Thank you, my dear friend, for yielding the time, for visiting the island, and being always available for the issues regarding Puerto Rico.

Governor, we were talking about the situations between FEMA, PREPA, and many people on the island that are following this hearing are always complaining that every week we do have a lot of blackouts.

We still need to improve them is the answer that I can give you.

I don't have a question for you, sir.

What will be your main request, aside for doing the Stafford Act amendment?

To think that you can put that aside just because you are facing a public debt issue or facing a recession in Puerto Rico misses the point all together.

There has been a change, a significant change, in the speed of the disbursements since the Biden administration came into office and my administration came to office.

A Resident Commissioner in Congress from the Territory of Puerto Rico.

I think Puerto Rico has been facing many----

The next request will be requiring the action plan for the rebuilding of the power grid system to the Committee, including timelines and estimated years in which milestones are to be achieved.

many of those funds, the funding is not being used because of the hurdles and the red tape of many Federal agencies to use on the island.

I am disappointed that PREPA and the Energy Bureau are not here today.

There is oversight on LUMA from so many quarters.

Nobody should expect that I will allow, if I can help it, for a major disruption of our system just because some people didn't like the P3 process.

The 15-year contract provides a payment methodology that includes either bonuses or penalties, depending on compliance with the metrics.