Thomas Rivera Schatz: “Only then will Puerto Rico truly possess the tools and mechanisms necessary to solve the social and economic crisis.”

I respectfully ask you to succeed where more than 50 previous Congresses have failed.

Well, we have always supported a balanced budget amendment, but, again, all of this could be done. It is a political will issue.

Lack of consensus equals lack of legitimacy.

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