Jenniffer González-Colón: “Thank you, Mr. Secretary, for your call yesterday and your well wishes, and I would like to take this opportunity to…”

Puerto Rico is not included in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.

Under the terms of the Freely Associated agreements, compact citizens can migrate and work in the United States but they are not U.S. citizens or nationals.

Without undue delay, we can and should exercise oversight and move the agreements forward.

I have introduced legislation that will add these crops as priority research areas for the Department of Agriculture.