If you want to get in the business of providing a public good, and for the Federal Government to subsidize it, then you understand that those salaries are also the public salary.

Privatizing electrical service is a disaster for the Puerto Rican people, because private utilities serve investors, not the public.

LUMA has received millions of dollars, and stands to receive billions more in an attempt to privatize the grid in Puerto Rico over the next 15 years.

Would prohibiting government officials like Members of Congress, the President, or members of the Board of Governors from holding or trading individual stocks limit conflict of interest and potential insider trading?

I am very alarmed, as you all know, about the recent disclosures regarding several Federal Reserve officials who have made transactions during the pandemic that I believe violated the Fed's ethics guidelines and may have violated the law.

I also call on my colleagues to support the Build Back Better Act, which would make critical investments to upgrade our infrastructure so that we can be better prepared for future disasters.

the American people are very angry--it is [inaudible] where, again, they are in the position of public trust and folks are using that position for their own personal interests.

I urge all of my colleagues to support the Federal Agency Climate Prep Act, the bill I introduced today that would ensure that the Federal Government has a comprehensive plan to tackle climate change, coordinated by the White House, and in…

I think we need to go farther in providing the capacity.

I've seen it. My folks have been flooded, I think, four times just in the last two months.

I want us to really focus on the fact that we haven't invested, I think, the critical amount of money, the kind of bold, meaningful investment that we need to really address the fact that we have a climate crisis in our country.

black lives matter should be very much at the forefront in every policy that we ever do in this country.