Pedro Pierluisi: “I know Resident Commissioner Jenniffer Gonzalez suffers through them every day in her tenure in Congress.”

Last month, I formally requested emergency assistance from FEMA to stabilize our power system by providing additional generation assets and accelerating work on our transmission and distribution grid.

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

We proved that when you treat us equally, we can do as well or better than anybody in the States.

I am devoting--it is my call--$500 million of CDBG-MIT funding to provide, basically, solar systems with batteries to roughly 25,000 low-income households.