We just received testimony that endangered species are declining, despite all of these policies.

Puerto Rico seems to me to be a poster child for a heavily regulated and government-managed economy and Keynesian deficit stimulus spending.

Puerto Rico got lower interest rates to borrow precisely because of this assurance of stability.

It seems to me that this is an opportunity to make Puerto Rico an enterprise zone, to dramatically reduce the tax and regulatory burdens.

The same principle applies to rewriting the rules after they have been agreed to and loans have been made under those rules.

The only thing they lack is wise public policy.

Granting Puerto Rico such unprecedented bankruptcy authority would likely raise the borrowing costs of our states.

the current releases from Folsom are due to flood control regulations that are badly outdated.

we have not accomplished the stated purpose of these laws, which was to improve the environment.

we cannot do that because of environmental regulations that are not only outdated, but, in many cases, have been found to be either defective or actually fraudulent.

I am very concerned that the lesson that this government is teaching is that it does not care about the residential needs of users.