Thomas Rivera Schatz: “The status dilemma of 4 million American citizens residing in Puerto Rico is a civil rights issue.”

If a program is going to be proposed and funded by the Federal government, there should be a way to determine whether that program is achieving its goals, and if it is not, it should be eliminated.

we have certainly seen a lot of wasteful expenditures over the years, but the fact that we spent all this money and come up with zero in terms of anything being sent to Yucca Mountain is certainly one of the largest examples of wasteful…

PROMESA is not working, and for proposing a fix to what is, in our opinion, unfixable.

This Committee should use its jurisdictional power... to enact legislation that will do away with our second-class status as a colony.