Our response to this loss needs to address the causes of decline and accelerate recovery through the restoration and resilience projects that my bill, H.R. 660, would authorize.

I and many others support Title 1 of the OBCSA and Mr Huffman's bill H.R. 3906.

Four years under the previous Administration of concerted efforts to dismantle healthcare, aggravate the disparity that already exists, undercut and sabotage Obamacare, that didn't occur.

If you really believe in democracy, justice, government by the consent of the governed, you must not hesitate any further or give any more excuses.

Consider as constitutionally viable only to start holding hearings on how the American Citizens residents of Puerto Rico can have equal rights and government by the consent of the governed.

To turn around and tell voters to go back to the drawing board and re-define multiple other options which the majority has rejected three times in the last eight years in favor of statehood, would not only be insulting to us, but…

We are meeting today for a second day of hearings on H.R. 1522, the Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act, and H.R. 2070, the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act of 2021.

The Committee is approaching a decision-making point, which is what the residents of Puerto Rico expect and deserve.

The tax cuts to the super wealthy that have skewed and affected the services that the American people need and demand from their government, and the punitive refugee and immigration policies that were the hallmark of the previous…

The attack on January 6 on our democracy forgotten; just a mere walk in the park.

As you have heard already today, and the drumbeat will continue that it is your fault, and by extension the fault of the Biden administration for any perceived or real ills that are affecting the American people.

It is important that the U.S. Congress take action on the referred case and enforce the rights of the Constitution for all U.S. citizens with equality.