"Unfortunately, the Democrat bill under consideration here today is not a realistic step forward for the island, but another empty attempt to halt real progress for our fellow Americans."
"The Majority has decided to propose an effort that would catastrophically dismantle every bit of the balanced law that Congress and the Obama administration worked so hard to put in place."
"Massive debt is what caused Puerto Rico so much pain, and what is holding Puerto Rico's economic recovery back."
"Unfortunately, as significant as those are and the problems I think we have talked about even when we were in Puerto Rico, those are not the jurisdiction of this Committee."
"Changing it is not going to solve the issue at hand. It is like trying to expand home plate."
"If we want to learn from history, we don't go down this road."
"The Congress crafted PROMESA with bipartisan support but the goal of that was always to ensure that it regains financial credibility."
"The number of Members who are here is heartening."
"I mean, if you could use the term, there should be bipartisan butt hurt here."
"Oversight is the responsibility of Congress, and it is good. And when it is bipartisan it can yield good results."
"When Secretary Bernhardt took over as Acting Secretary, the Department produced for this Committee over 100,000 pages of information from 22 different oversight requests."