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On the recordMarch 21, 2017
Do you find it unusual that the Governor and PROMESA board has found that the Commonwealth has the ability to pay 25 percent of currently outstanding debt, but you are here today, sir, asking that PREPA's ratepayers pay 89 percent of the existing debt?
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Esteban Torres
Democratic · California

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Torres highlights a discrepancy in debt payment responsibilities between the Commonwealth and PREPA ratepayers.

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