Jenniffer González-Colón

The appointment of Jennifer Granholm to lead reconstruction efforts for the U.S. Government is a positive step

Can you provide the Committee a breakdown, including the justifications and the amount charged and paid for those affiliates of your parent companies, even including Hurricane Fiona?

So, why treat Puerto Rico differently than the way you treat other states when they are in times of need?

What we are supporting here is what the people of the island voted for, and that is statehood.

The only ones elected to do that job is the Governor of Puerto Rico, who is sitting right there, and me.

Governor, we were talking about the situations between FEMA, PREPA, and many people on the island that are following this hearing are always complaining that every week we do have a lot of blackouts.

This Committee did not pass H.R. 1522. We passed H.R. 8393. That was a consensus bill that had many hearings through the years.

The main issue for our problems, financial problems, is the status. And that is the root of the problem.

I understand that the biggest challenge Puerto Rico is facing is the unstable condition of the grid and the generation plants, and we all know that back home.

Thank you, my dear friend, for yielding the time, for visiting the island, and being always available for the issues regarding Puerto Rico.

The effects of Fiona and the ongoing rains have brought back to our attention that the necessary public works to make our infrastructure more resilient, are going at a snail's pace.

Puerto Rico has been facing a long and tough recovery in every sense of the word.

Many of those funds, the funding is not being used because of the hurdles and the red tape of many Federal agencies to use on the island.

I think Puerto Rico has been facing many----

A Resident Commissioner in Congress from the Territory of Puerto Rico.

Loopholes should not be a part of that Executive Order.

The Corps of Engineers projects have been critical resources I have counted on for Puerto Rico.

These and many other projects in towns across the islands... require attention, and it is my hope that we can soon hear good news about them.

I will say that the Corps is one of the best resources I have counted on for Puerto Rico.

We approved the infrastructure bill a few days ago, the President signed it, but there are still a lot of areas that we can improve.

The American Society of Civil Engineers decided that Puerto Rico needed more than $3 billion to bring our network just to good repair.

I have introduced H.R. 1967, which will allow Puerto Rico to issue commercial driver's licenses to truckdrivers in Puerto Rico.

I fear we sometimes tend to focus on larger commercial fishing operations and forget about the needs of our small-scale fishermen.

Congress should enact the "Housing Survivors of Major Disasters Act," (H.R. 3037)

I mean, all of us have our problems, and I think the witnesses have illustrated things that can be achieved by working together.