Pedro Pierluisi: “There has been a lot of progress in terms of the public finances of Puerto Rico.”

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

We respectfully ask this Committee and Congress to help us address some additional challenges that we are facing in our ongoing post-disaster reconstruction.

I am disappointed that PREPA and the Energy Bureau are not here today.

I am pleased to report that Puerto Rico is emerging from a challenging period with strength and optimism into a new era of stability evidenced by the island's economic upswing.