Pedro Pierluisi: “I am describing statehood. There is nothing wrong with that, but it is just the language used.”

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.

The debt needs to be the lower the better.

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

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