Can you provide the Committee a breakdown, including the justifications and the amount charged and paid for those affiliates of your parent companies, even including Hurricane Fiona?

a critical aspect of Fiona's recovery is the grid stabilization plan announced this week.

most, if not all, territories that have become states were under-performing the states financially and economically.

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

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

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.

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.

LUMA is represented at this hearing, so you can ask them directly.

I am not going to allow PREPA to end up with a debt burden that is going to end up causing extraordinary increases, unacceptable increases, in the cost of electricity in Puerto Rico.

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.

I believe it increases resiliency in the sense that you are making these households more self-sufficient.

Why am I supporting the $5 billion proposal of Chairman Grijalva and others in Congress for more solar systems?

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.

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.

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.

Actually, the American Rescue Plan has been a blessing for us.