I promise you that in Sustainable Development Goal number 16, that has good governance, sound governance and anticorruption in it, it will be an enormous priority.

I appreciate what you said about Ambassador Aponte.

I think we underestimate in the United States what that challenge is.

If confirmed by the Senate, I will continue the strong support of the United States for the holding of credible and long-overdue elections; this would be one of my highest priorities.

Would we say that we still want to look forward then? Or would we acknowledge that agreement between the two parties is what should prevail...

I was free to call it an invasion, which it was.

I hope that that is a sense of consultation because I know I would like to tell my friends at the State Department that, for me, speaking as one Senator sitting on this committee for better part of 10 years now, that there is a difference…

I hope you use the tool.

I think what is happening in Estonia, the challenges, the concerns they have in Poland, which I was also at last year, obviously with the Russian invasion, countries that all have legitimate reasons to be concerned about Russia's…

I need honest and open and transparent answers.

there is a fierce urgency of 'now' on this issue, and I just do not get the sense that many of my colleagues understand that.

The problem with that is that the debt payments in Puerto Rico are 36 percent of Puerto Rico's annual revenue, a rate that is six times the U.S. average.