The truth is that, taken together, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are currently experiencing the largest blackout in American history.

However, a Federal mandate to include microgrids in a new energy model for Puerto Rico will certainly help.

Let's talk about PREPA's governance.

I want answers and so do many of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

I have serious concerns not only about how PREPA has overseen the effort to restore power in Puerto Rico, but also more broadly on how PREPA has managed--or more accurately, mismanaged--the grid in Puerto Rico over the years.

The Federal Government needs to step up and take charge to expedite power restoration efforts.

It needs to change now.

I was proud that we were able to have included in one of the bills that we passed here on the Hill, a demonstration program to look at the co-prescribing of naloxone.

I don't think it's adequate. I think that if we're going to be ready... we have got to anticipate what comes next.

I want to thank my colleague, Derek Kilmer from Washington, for his leadership on the Honest Ads Act.

You could start a cultural revolution within the Administration that says we are going to pay attention to ethics.

Do you agree that the grid is at risk from cyber attacks from Russian hackers, or other hackers for that matter?

The U.S. intelligence community, as you know I think, has drawn a definitive conclusion that Russian hackers were interfering with our elections last year.

As a leader in the United States Government, the choices you make and the work that you will do have profound effects upon our nation and its citizens. And the citizens deserve to have confidence in the integrity of their government.

I have been chairing this Democracy Reform Task Force. We are actually releasing a report today called Trump's High Flying Cabinet which details what I see as kind of a culture of entitlement among many of the cabinet members in terms of…

I appreciate that because you've led--in your answer you've gone right to the place that I have some anxiety about.

There is three things I think that the public is angry about.

There is going to continue to be, I think, serious questions about all three of those things.

So I think that is a piece of this that we need to understand much better, and I want to thank my constituents for bringing that to our attention.

They want to understand.

There seems to have been a delay there that concerns people.

I think it is important because it may be that with respect to credit reporting the implications of this breach only attach to people that are 18 or older.

I certainly don't quarrel with the concerns and priorities that my colleague has set forth. Let's find resources to address those issues, but let's not take them from a proven valuable program like the Fulbright Program. Mr. Chairman, I…

Whatever priority or alternative use of these funds is being proposed, I can't imagine that it would compete with where this money is being taken away from. The $30 million that has been identified would be taken away from the Fulbright…

During rollcall Vote No. 428 on H.R. 3219, I mistakenly recorded my vote as ``present'' when I should have voted ``no.'' Amendment No. 63 Offered by Mr. Perry The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on…