Executive director for puerto rico electric Power Authority, prepa, welcome, thank you for being here this morning. Mr. Julio rhymer executive director for the Virgin Islands water and Power Authority. Thank you for joining us. You will be followed by mr. Jose ramon morales, we welcome you. And finally we will have ms. Natalie, the executive director for the financial oversight and Management Board for puerto rico. Welcome to each of you. I would ask that you limit your comments this morning to five minutes. Your full testimony will be included as part of the record. But i do know that colleagues have questions. As you have obviously seen from that first panel there were some directed to our governors that they deferred until we had the expertise from this panel. So hopefully youll be able to address those questions either in your Opening Statements or in your follow on questions. So with that, mr. Ramos, if you would like to lead off the panel. Welcome. Chairman murkowski, Ranking Mem
Mr. Julio is the executive director, the ceo for the Virgin Islands water and power authority, thank you for joining us. He will be followed by mr. Jose morales who is the acting chairman for the Puerto Rico Energy commission. We welcome you, and finally we will have natalie who is the executive director for the Management Board for puerto rico. Welcome to each of you. I would ask that you limit your comments this morning to five minutes, your full testimony will be included as part of the record but i do know colleagues have questions as you have obviously seen from the first panel, there was some directed to our governors that they different so we had the expertise from this panel. Hopefully you will be able to address those in your Opening Statement or in your followon questions. Welcome. German murkowski, Ranking Member cantwell and senators, thank you very much for the opportunity to appear today. Although i am present here physically, my thoughts, my focus are on the people of pu
It will be another record close. On the week, the dow on pace for its first two week decline since august. Some who think this pullback we are seeing today and on the week could continue. This is a great chart that Katie Stockton shared with our new weekly charting segment earlier this week. This basically suggests we could see a bit of a pullback before stocks climb higher. This is the s p 500 in white over the last year. Katie is saying its likely to move down toward this area theed the cloud, perhaps 200 day moving average, a pullback of 25 before refreshing a year and rally. Year end rally. These are the big gainers on the week. Foot locker up 32 , mattel up 20 . Vision health care of 15 . Netap op onand earnings. Here onsee a decline the bloomberg dollar index, down. 7 . On the year, down more than 7 , on pace for the worst year since 2003. House republicans did pass that tax bill, perhaps a first step in an economic jolt. Some investors relative to the, dollar not too optimistic.
Watch our life we can coverage of the Miami Book Fair this weekend on cspan2s booktv. Next, to Foreign Policy advisers for democrats and republicans debate healthcare policy including benefits, challenges of the current law, the gop attempts to repeal and replace it. Good morning. And hope you enjoyed the dinner last night and are bright eyed and bushy tailed this morning. Do we have a couple of panelists in the wings here somewhere by chance . Rumor had it i did. I see them, and theres a hand waiting. Very good. Chris, lanhee, good to see you. I was afraid i was going to to do you look weak or a monologue for an hour. That wouldve been something. Weve got repeal and replace ine wind, very polarized congress, polarized nation. All of this is impacting us a lot, so we thought it would make sense to go ahead and invite a couple of representatives one from the left, one from the right. So in terms of format, let me go ahead and provide introductions to these gentlemen that are probably pr
[inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. The committee will come to orde order. We are here this morning to review ongoing Recovery Efforts in puerto rico and the Virgin Islands in weeks of Hurricane Irma. We are now over two months removed from when Hurricane Irma devastated st. Thomas and st. John on september 6. Its been nearly 60 days since Hurricane Maria hit st. Croix and puerto rico. This is a little over a week ago that senators cassidys, franken and i, along with senator carper who was just here and senator harris as well as some of our house colleagues visited both st. Thomas and puerto rico. I want to thank both governors, the governor or cello for your hospitality, the time that you gave us during that visit was incredibly important for all of us to see to be on the ground and to be hearing directly from you. I know that some other members of our committee have traveled to puerto rico previously and i thank them for that as well. What i think we observed is that the