Madeleine Bordallo: “As Chair, I am going to have to hold you to the five minutes.”

The cost of electricity for Puerto Rico residents is nearly twice the national average, while at the same time their GDP per capita and median household income are just half that of the mainland United States.

I am concerned that the Army is standing up a four-star organization with up to three lieutenant generals as deputies without a clearly defined command relationship.

The system needs, as you said, overhauling. There is no question about it, whether you go to privatization, or whatever. And it should not be a monopoly.

I think it is fair to ask if the Army is, in fact, just creating more overhead that will further slow an already cumbersome process.