Pedro Pierluisi: “I support statehood, because I believe the people of Puerto Rico have earned the right, should they choose to exercise…”

Well, one thing FEMA is doing is actually funding a public affairs campaign, public education campaign, encouraging people to build up to code.

We would like to be included in the SNAP program, and we are requesting that. It is only fair that we get the same nutrition assistance as our fellow American citizens in the States.

I am not going to allow PREPA to end up with a debt burden that is going to end up causing extraordinary increases, unacceptable increases, in the cost of electricity in Puerto Rico.

We need to do public-private partnerships for both transmission and distribution and generation, and actually split the two so that there is no monopoly in Puerto Rico.