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I will not support a deal that will bind the people of Puerto Rico with a bad deal for the next 30, 40, 50 years.

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.

Canceling that contract is, to me, a nightmare.

We need to do public-private partnerships for both transmission and distribution and generation, and actually split the two so that there is no monopoly in Puerto Rico.

There is an energy transformation law in Puerto Rico, which was approved on a bipartisan basis in 2018.

That is a game-changer. So, that is new.

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

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

I understand that the biggest challenge Puerto Rico is facing is the unstable condition of the grid and the generation plants, and we all know that back home.

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

We are devoting $1.3 billion of CDBG-DR funding for microgrids, distributed energy initiatives in remote communities.

We need to improve our energy system so we don't have this power disruption for so long after a major disaster.

We need to have a lot more discussion about that.

We cannot repair the units or give them even regular maintenance, as they should.

FEMA has agreed to come in and assist us in increasing our power generation for a period of time which could range between 1 year and 1½ years.

I thank you for favorably reporting H.R. 8393 out of this Committee and urge Congress to approve it.

The people of Puerto Rico voted and chose permanent union with the United States through statehood as their path forward.

We respectfully ask this Committee and Congress to help us address some additional challenges that we are facing in our ongoing post-disaster reconstruction.