Nydia Velázquez: “Can you assure the people of Puerto Rico that any additional belt tightening will not be put on their backs?”

Representative Schneider has been a long-time champion of this bill which codifies the SBA's Boots to Business program.

Short-sighted attacks on the Council, by some of my colleagues across the aisle will only compromise our ability to appropriately protect the air and water quality and public health that our communities rely on.

my colleagues on the other side of the aisle constantly use this fact to call for dramatic spending cuts

We must confront the challenges that cause timelines of project approvals to grow, particularly lack of agency staffing, however, undermining the agencies responsible for protecting our environment is not the solution.