"I want to ask you, sir, if my mother was a heroin addict, would I have done the same thing?"
"the challenges of Puerto Rico are very different than the challenges in Houston and Florida."
"What we need to talk about is capacity and what is the capacity of the infrastructure to reach how many people."
"A lot of the motivation for the Affordable Care Act was to begin to kind of turn our healthcare system towards prevention."
"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 Pu..."
"The truth is that, taken together, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are currently experiencing the largest blackout in American history."
"I want answers and so do many of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle."
"It needs to change now."
"The Federal Government needs to step up and take charge to expedite power restoration efforts."
"Nobody denies the challenges of repairing the collapsed energy grid of Puerto Rico, but I submit to you that most of the challenges to turn the lights back on in Puerto Rico are neither natural nor ge..."
"The actual death toll not of Hurricane Maria, but of Hurricane PREPA has not been properly disclosed by the government of Puerto Rico."
"However, a Federal mandate to include microgrids in a new energy model for Puerto Rico will certainly help."