We should be going down to Puerto Rico for these hearings in November and December.

The answer, much to my dismay but to the surprise of no one is simple: Democrats would rather listen to their radical special interests groups than to consider the detrimental impacts this reckless proposal will have on the current fragile…

This entire process was always intended to be temporary.

Changing it is not going to solve the issue at hand. It is like trying to expand home plate.

The PROMESA legislation was unique in the annals of Congress.

Today, unfortunately, we sit here to consider the exact opposite of what a bi-partisan compromise looks like.

Despite progress with the Board, little changed in the past 3 years in Puerto Rico's government, other than the resignation of the previous governor.

Massive debt is what caused Puerto Rico so much pain, and what is holding Puerto Rico's economic recovery back.

Without this Board, without the structure we have in hand, those three goals--the economic success, the governmental stability, as well as the path to statehood--are going to be significantly retarded, if not eliminated.

Three years ago this Committee crafted a bi-partisan compromise between the then Republican-controlled Congress and the Obama administration Treasury Department to help bring stability to Puerto Rico's quickly unraveling debt crisis.

The second is to provide governmental stability, which hasn't happened necessarily in the last several years.

Unfortunately, as significant as those are and the problems I think we have talked about even when we were in Puerto Rico, those are not the jurisdiction of this Committee.

I thank the Resident Commissioner for her stalwart leadership and the work she conducts to find real solutions for her 3 million constituents.

What we really should be talking about are ways in which we can actually make the system that you have possible for the three goals that I still have for the island.

I'm afraid that when it comes to foreign policy, he is very, very not smart.

What we have done to the Kurds, we'll stand as a blood stain in the annals of American history. Was there more chance for diplomacy? Are we so weak and so inept diplomatically that Turkey forced the hand of the United States of America…

When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest it is anything other politically motivated.

By all appearances the President's brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling.