Rob Bishop

I am sure there is going to be a wide variety of questions that are going to be given to you.

I want equal time and equal treatment.

On May 10, 1869, a Salt Lake paper wrote that the people of Utah--the great pioneers of the Rocky Mountains--received with acclamation the glad news of the completion of the mighty work to which as a people they had contributed their part…

Congress can help to mitigate and prepare Puerto Rico for impending hurricanes and other natural disasters by providing timely and well-invested disaster reconstruction funds.

I don't care about the big picture. I am asking you about that reform.

Austerity alone does not work and will only lead to further economic contraction.

Three years ago, this Committee was assigned to come up with a process, in some particular way, to solve the looming disaster that was facing financial disaster in Puerto Rico.

I voted for its passage and urged my colleagues to do the same because I agreed with the Obama administration that urgent action was needed to prevent an economic catastrophe due to never-ending lawsuits that would result from creditors…

if the goal--and I think the goal from at least the majority of this side of the aisle is to see Puerto Rico eventually have statehood sooner rather than later, the ability of working together to solve these issues becomes critical.

It's been 3 years since this Committee crafted and signed into law the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act.

While the Obama administration worked hand in hand with the Puerto Rican government to assist them in addressing the crisis, the Trump administration has been out of sight and out of mind.

I am proud to report that my administration has enacted and implemented more laws and reforms than any other administration in Puerto Rico's history.

Representatives Velazquez and Bishop have filed a bill to strengthen the legislated disclosure requirements of third parties hired by the Board.

They are both expressing their opposition to the Governor's Executive Order 2018-33.

PROMESA was a bi-partisan compromise that came out of a Republican Congress and the Obama administration.

In an effort to come to an evaluation of if we are ready to move on, the essential element has to be some kind of audit to be a part of that.

All of us--the Oversight Board, Congress and the Administration--owe it to the Puerto Rican people to help them find solutions to the problems they are facing.

I appreciate that in your opening statement you did say that when you were running for governor, the idea of an Oversight Board was not even contemplated.

I thank Mr. Gosar for yielding me time. I appreciate this opportunity. Mr. Speaker, look, I was listening to a lecture the other day about the old Romans, the Roman Empire. The Romans' success in creating their empire was that they were…

The gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Gosar) is spot-on accurate. I thank him for bringing this up.

Look, I don't want to actually defend any bureaucracy in Washington, especially because the Department of the Interior, let's face it, if you were actually a business, you would have been bankrupt years ago.

I hope we can solve it, which is also one of the reasons I hope Mr. Grijalva will simply schedule a hearing for a backlog bill

I was absolutely appalled, being the guy that opened the World War II Memorial, when barricades had been rented or purchased and put up in an open air memorial to do nothing but harass the Nation's veterans that put their lives on the line.

I don't want a 1-hour plane ride, I want to walk around the block to him.

If I could inquire of the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Van Drew) if he has any more speakers. I don't have any other speakers.