Jenniffer González-Colón: “I fear we sometimes tend to focus on larger commercial fishing operations and forget about the needs of our small-scale…”

the information we got from the agency was that $500,000 was enough, and we appropriated the funds for this, and now seeing the reduction in the budget plan, it is like, not going according to what we proposed.

Puerto Rico received a D-minus score by the American Society of Civil Engineers scorecard published in 2019 because the bridges, ports, and roads are among the lowest grades per individual category.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I urge all of my colleagues to support this bipartisan bill to strengthen the Federal response to marine debris.