Raúl Grijalva

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

Residents of Puerto Rico are struggling to receive basic services, with some hospitals now quite literally in the dark.

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.

We cannot see the logic behind lowering the minimum wage to $4.25 an hour for the very group of people we need to stay on the island.

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.

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.

Nothing could be further from the truth. This bill protects taxpayers by ensuring not one dime of taxpayer money is used to pay Puerto Rico's debt or otherwise bailout its government.

This legislation eliminates that risk by creating a strong, independent oversight board to ensure needed reforms are carried out.

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

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.

If unaddressed, climate change will continue to make the American West dryer and hotter.

$12 billion is an intimidating number.

I am concerned about the National Park Service's deferred maintenance backlog.

Only one person in this room has actually produced a budget for the coming fiscal year, and that is Secretary Jewell.

Producing a detailed annual budget request for the entire Federal Government is an enormous task that requires serious work and political courage.

I would urge my colleagues across the aisle, rather than spending your 5 minutes attacking the Administration's budget, take at least some of your time to explain your own views on what our spending priorities should be, and how you…

To fail to do your job, then criticize those who are doing theirs, is hypocritical and irresponsible.

House Republicans have no budget of their own, and cannot seem to pass individual appropriation bills, but that does not stop them from having loud opinions about the Administration's proposals.

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.

Only one person in the room, I might add, has actually produced a budget for the coming fiscal year, and that is Secretary Jewell.

In the meantime, while we fiddle by holding yet another hearing, Rome--which in this case is Puerto Rico--continues to burn.

While these hearings are instructive, if we are going to meet the Speaker's deadline, we should have long since begun discussions on a bipartisan legislative solution to the crisis.

In this President's budget we once again see an increase in the funding for charter schools.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Arizona will be postponed. Amendment No. 8 Offered by Mr. Takano The Acting CHAIR. It is now…