I ask the subcommittee to provide robust funding to the National Science Foundation, as well as NASA programs to support its operation.

given the lack of funding, we are asking them to do an impossible job

I respectfully urge the subcommittee to include language, just like you did last year, directing the U.S. Department of Justice to prioritize law enforcement personnel and resources in the U.S. Caribbean.

we are advocating for overall funding of all the programs to $105 million

Thank you, Chairman Serrano, for your leadership in the committee and the support of Puerto Rico.

NOAA has begun to develop a new agency initiative, a SASH prevention program.

I think this issue of sexual assault and sexual harassment is very serious. It cannot be tolerated in a Federal workforce.

Every employee deserves a workplace free of sexual assault and harassment.

I will be requesting an increase in the block grant for Fiscal Year 2021 that is needed for the island.

These three disasters did not create the challenges with NAP. However, they exacerbated these challenge.

If we were in the SNAP program, we will never be here.

We were not aware of the seismic activity on the Island.

I think this is the right time to bring them back.

Congresswoman, the intent was to provide the training materials that the pilots would need to fly the airplane, rather than try to educate them on the system details.

HUD has been sitting on $8 billion in grant agreements since May. How can we complain, and how can the Federal agencies complain that we are not efficiently using the funds, when the money is not even in the island?

One thing is, Congress and the President signed a law approving $49 billion, approximately, to the island.

How can we receive the funds that have been already appropriated by Congress and by the President?

The only reason that there is a pension cut proposed in the plan of adjustment is because of the bankruptcy laws in the United States.