Thank you. We begin the second panel again with distinguished group of individuals. Who are prepared to continue the conversation relating to the after math of hurricanes irma and maria. On puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands. The second panel will be led by mr. Ramos. Executive director for puerto rico electric Power Authority. Welcome. Thank you for being here. Mr. Rimer. Is the executive director the ceo for the Virgin Islands water and Power Authority. Thank you for joining us. Mr. Rhymer. He will be followed by mr. Jose. The acting chairman for the Puerto Rico Energy commission. We welcome you. And finally well have ms. Natalie the executive director. 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. You have obviously seen from the first panel there was some directed to the governors that they deferred until w
Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order. We are here this morning to review on going Recovery Efforts in puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands in the wake of hurricanes irma and maria, as well as efforts to rebuild it electric grids on those islands in a smarter and hopefully a more resilient manner. Were over two months removed from when Hurricane Irma devastated st. Thomas and john on september 6th and its been nearly 60 days since Hurricane Maria hit st. Croix and puerto rico. Just a little over a week ago that senators cassdy, 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. For your hospitality. The time you gave us during that visit. It was incredibly important i think for all of us to see to be on it ground and to be hearing directly from you and those that you are working with. I know that some other members of our commi
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A petition supporting the visit received more than 300,000 votes. Heres a look at 90 minutes of that debate. Some viewers may find some of the language objectionable. Order. Order. This is a very oversubscribed debate. If everybody sticks to five minutes, and doesnt take too many interventions, if any, everybody should get in. Should i remind people in the Public Gallery that this is the chamber of the house of commons. If i have any offstage noise, i will suspend this sitting and clear the Public Gallery. I call mr. Paul flynn. Thank you very much. Its a pleasure to serve in your company, and the distinguished parliamentarian. I beg to move that petition 17884 and 179928 are considered by this house. Allow me to introduce these petitions. Theres been a great deal of misunderstanding about their nature. Theres one thats signed by nearly 300 people, which says that donald trump should be invited to make an official state visit because hes the leader of the free world, and the uk is a co
Partly Wisconsin South to clybourn will close for repaving. Thats a twoblock stretch of Fourth Street. According to a Traffic Alert from the department of public works. The project will be wrapped up and the street will be reopened by this evenings commute. But if youre going might want to avoid Fourth Street again, between wisconsin and clybourn. If you cant take an alternate route. The intersections at michigan and clybourn will remain open during the re paving. Live. Pz. Tmj4 new this morning. Milwaukee police are looking for the driver that hit a motorcyclist and then took off from the scene. They say it happened just before nine monday night and mitchell. The motorcyclist ran a stoplight and was hit by a silver suv. The driver stopped for a second, but then drove off. The motorcyclist was taken to a hospital for serious injuries. The suspect accused of killing a man during a funeral procession is now in custody now facing murder charges. Police say Dennis Brookshire shot and kille