As Members of Congress, we have to decide tomorrow who comes first: vulture funds and others who steadfastly refuse to join other investors in good faith on a compromised solution or the American people in Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico will be unable to make any fiscal plan work going forward without the Medicaid support that is called for in the Treasury proposal.

The people of Puerto Rico deserve no less, and the effort on their behalf should be constant with the perspective that I think is needed in this discussion.

These vulture funds are now aggressively campaigning against a solution to help the island relieve some of its debt.

It is at the expense of the quality of life for the people of Puerto Rico.

If a true bipartisan legislation is to appear, it needs to appear immediately.

I would encourage you to come up with a plan for those unallocated acres.

$12 billion is an intimidating number.

I want to thank you for the work the Department has done to see this plan to completion.

You are holding your own with strength and dignity, despite the disrespectful, patronizing, paternalistic bullying.

The failure is due to internal bickering and the same Republican extremism that caused government shutdowns, a debt crisis, and the resignation of our previous Speaker.