{"id":161,"date":"2015-12-18T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=161"},"modified":"2016-12-08T19:38:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T19:38:44","slug":"statement-by-council-speaker-mark-viverito-re-exclusion-of-bankruptcy-protections-for-puerto-rico-in-2016-omnibus-spending-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2015\/12\/18\/161\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Council Speaker Mark-Viverito Re: Exclusion of  Bankruptcy Protections for Puerto Rico in 2016 Omnibus Spending Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cOnce again, the Republican Congress has singled out Puerto Ricans as second-class citizens. While I recognize the Republican Party\u2019s commitment to helping Puerto Rico in the new year, the 3.5 million Americans who call the Island home simply cannot afford to wait that long. With each passing day, the economic and healthcare crisis in Puerto Rico grows direr and the Republican Congress must fully commit to providing Puerto Rico with the support it needs to restructure its debt and thrive once more. I thank Leader Reid, Senator Schumer, Minority Leader Pelosi, Congresswoman Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez, Congressman Luis V. Guti\u00e9rrez and Congressman Jos\u00e9 E. Serrano for their continued leadership in advocating for Puerto Rico.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2013Council Speaker Mark-Viverito<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOnce again, the Republican Congress has singled out Puerto Ricans as second-class citizens. While I recognize the Republican Party\u2019s commitment to helping Puerto Rico in the new year, the 3.5 million Americans who call the Island home simply cannot afford to wait that long. With each passing day, the economic and healthcare crisis in Puerto Rico grows direr and the Republican Congress must fully commit to providing Puerto Rico with the support it needs to restructure its debt and thrive once more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2015\/12\/18\/161\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}