Why, if we do have $9.6 billion in Federal funds to get a renewable system, to change the power grid, make it more resilient, and help with the generation, as well, why are those funds not being used?

How good is our infrastructure right now? Is it going to handle any hurricane?

I hope this hearing provides better guidance to all of us in addressing this issue, in answering what is going to happen when the people of Puerto Rico are going to have power, and when PREPA is going to submit to FEMA all the necessary…

If you don't have power in some rural communities, they will not have water usage at the same time.

In order for that to happen, we must now, first and foremost, provide the people of Puerto Rico an energy supply that is affordable for the consumer; reliable for both base loads and peak loads for the private sector, as well--our…

Can it handle any other situation?

Can you please provide us a specific timeline for LUMA submitting project Scope of Work documentation for FEMA/COR3 projects?

Four years after Hurricane Maria, 1 year since the obligation of over $10 billion in different funds to build a better grid, 3 months after a much-proclaimed contract for Transmission and Distribution, this has ended the people's patience.

What does it mean to your members, and transit organizations that serve new transit routes created in response to COVID-19, that we are unable to provide long-term certainty and funding?

By allowing us to tap into potential offshore wind resources, H.R. 1689 would help the territories address high energy costs, diversify our fuel sources, and end our reliance on foreign petroleum imports.

I, therefore, hope that we can once again work in a bipartisan manner to move H.R. 1689 out of the Committee and finally get it across the finish line.

This is a bipartisan legislation that would apply the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to the submerged lands off the five U.S. territories for renewable energy purposes.

This bipartisan legislation would apply the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to the submerged lands off the five U.S. territories for renewable energy purposes.

As the island's sole representative in Congress, I have introduced multiple bills to achieve this and will continue to advance these efforts.

Gonzalez-Colon, Hon. Jenniffer, a Resident Commissioner in Congress from the Territory of Puerto Rico.

The so-called parity is not equality, and it is not a permanent solution.

Puerto Rico has, through the ballot box, exercised its right to self-determination, rejected the current territorial status, and voted for statehood.

are we going to ignore the will of voters in Puerto Rico, and pretend that we know better than them? Or are we going to stand with our fellow citizens on the Island and respect their vote for full equality, for statehood?

Opponents for statehood as well also claim that all Federal taxes lost will immediately apply to Puerto Rico from becoming a state.

I do believe that the analysis of H.R. 1522 was particularly comprehensive and helped dispel some of the myths that are being used against statehood.

The other bill, H.R. 2070, blatantly ignores the will of the people of Puerto Rico.

H.R. 1522 will constitute Congress' response to my constituents on the island.

Now that a majority of Puerto Ricans have definitively spoken, the most appropriate response for Congress is to act on their will.

Do you think that voters in the island are capable and knowledgeable enough to understand that status options are available to them and their consequences without having to resort to an assembly of a few selected--where decisions are made…

the Act of Admission was filed by Resident Commissioner Jennifer Gonzalez Colon.