With no consideration of the cost benefit to be derived.
Often in multiples of what the actual cost of the project is.
Our responsibility is to assist in the unavoidable acts of God.
Acts of God are the responsibility to repair by the Federal Government. But acts of government are the responsibilities of that government's...
The damage that your Commonwealth has suffered is appalling and your Delegate has kept us focused on those concerns.
But again, we have to recognize part of those were pre-existing, and the result of bad decisions by the Puerto Rican government.
All of us have been appalled by the devastation in Puerto Rico, and the stories have been heart-rendering.
During the hearings on PROMESA, I pointed out Puerto Rico is a cruise ship destination. It should be the gem of the Caribbean.
The principal question I have is whether our laws are actually counterproductive to protecting endangered species.
We have lost 1,100 square miles of forestland in my district to catastrophic fire in the last 5 years.
Doesn't it make sense to harvest the older trees and replace them with young growing trees to sequester more carbon?