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Last month, I formally requested emergency assistance from FEMA to stabilize our power system by providing additional generation assets and accelerating work on our transmission and distribution grid.

Congress should call for a vote on the political future of Puerto Rico and commit to implementing the will of the majority.

The people of Puerto Rico voted and chose statehood as their path forward.

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.

What is being done with the billions of dollars in aid? What are the plans? When will we see results?

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

My constituents hear about all those billions, and they ask a simple question, where are they?

The effects of Fiona and the ongoing rains have brought back to our attention that the necessary public works to make our infrastructure more resilient, are going at a snail's pace.

Puerto Rico has been facing a long and tough recovery in every sense of the word.

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 think Puerto Rico has been facing many----

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

The damage that we have suffered, because of this hurricane, is rain-related, mostly. It's going to - by the time, the tail leaves Puerto Rico, we will have gotten roughly 35 inches of rain. That's a huge amount of rain.

I hope that it's going to be a matter of days, to get the service back, to most of our customers.

We are much better-prepared now than Puerto Rico was, five years ago, when we got hit by the Hurricane Maria.

Loopholes should not be a part of that Executive Order.

Science and medicine have been driving our government decisions. I have been relying on the medical and scientific community in Puerto Rico for my decisions.

Imagine where Puerto Rico would have been today if it had not been for the fact that the Trump--during the Trump year, he withheld disaster relief money appropriated by the Congress of the United States.