FEMA has agreed to come in and assist us in increasing our power generation for a period of time which could range between 1 year and 1½ years.

We need to have a lot more discussion about that.

The people of Puerto Rico voted and chose permanent union with the United States through statehood as their path forward.

The people of Puerto Rico voted and chose statehood as their path forward.

We are devoting $1.3 billion of CDBG-DR funding for microgrids, distributed energy initiatives in remote communities.

For about 3 years, the spending that happened in Puerto Rico was emergency spending by FEMA.

That is a game-changer. So, that is new.

My constituents hear about all those billions, and they ask a simple question, where are they?

What is being done with the billions of dollars in aid? What are the plans? When will we see results?

Congress should call for a vote on the political future of Puerto Rico and commit to implementing the will of the majority.

There is an energy transformation law in Puerto Rico, which was approved on a bipartisan basis in 2018.