{"id":40768,"date":"2015-02-25T13:24:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T18:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/?p=40768"},"modified":"2015-02-25T13:40:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T18:40:13","slug":"el-doctor-arturo-porzecanski-ofrecera-un-analisis-de-la-audiencia-del-comite-de-la-camara-de-representantes-de-los-estados-unidos-sobre-el-proyecto-del-capitulo-9-de-puerto-rico-a-las-300-p-m-del-ju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/el-doctor-arturo-porzecanski-ofrecera-un-analisis-de-la-audiencia-del-comite-de-la-camara-de-representantes-de-los-estados-unidos-sobre-el-proyecto-del-capitulo-9-de-puerto-rico-a-las-300-p-m-del-ju\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Arturo Porzecanski to Provide Analysis of U.S. House Committee Hearing on Puerto Rico Chapter 9 Bill at 3:00 p.m. Thursday, February 26th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html><br \/>\n  <head><br \/>\n    <META http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/META><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}<\/p>\n<p>BODY {\nFONT-SIZE: 0.83em; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\"\n}\nA {\nCOLOR: blue\n}\n#divWide\n{\nmargin:0;\nmargin-top:1.33em;\n}\nLI {\nFONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\"\n}\n<\/style>\n<p><\/head><br \/>\n  <body topmargin=\"0\" leftmargin=\"0\"><br \/>\n    <\/p>\n<div id=\"divHeadline\" style=\"width:800px;margin-left:10pt\">\n      <!-- #Begin headline --><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\">\n        <b>Dr. Arturo Porzecanski to Provide Analysis of U.S. House Committee Hearing on Puerto Rico Chapter 9 Bill at 3:00 p.m. Thursday, February 26th <\/b>\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n        <span><br \/>\n          <i>Porzecanski will provide a telephone briefing for analysts and journalists about the hearing and his written submission<\/i><br \/>\n        <\/span>\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <!-- #End headline -->\n    <\/div>\n<div id=\"divBody\" style=\"width:800px;margin-left:10pt\">\n      <!-- #Begin release --><br \/>\n<!-- #Begin Wide Release --><\/p>\n<div id=\"divWide\">\n<p>\n    <span><br \/>\n<\/span>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    <span><\/p>\n<p><span>WASHINGTON<\/span>, Feb. 25, 2015 \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; On <b>Thursday, February 26<\/b> <b>at 3:00 p.m. EST\/ 4:00 p.m. AST<\/b>, following the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law hearing, American University&#8217;s Professor Arturo Porzecanski will host a call to offer an analysis of the hearing and to present highlights of his own invited submission to the Subcommittee.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><\/span>\n  <\/p>\n<p><span>The focus of the Congressional hearing will be House Resolution 870, the<i> &#8220;Puerto Rico Chapter 9 Uniformity Act of 2015<\/i>.&#8221; In his submission, Dr. Porzecanski wrote: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><i>&#8220;This bill is damaging to what little investor confidence is left in Puerto Rico&#8217;s ability and willingness to service its debt obligations. The bill is also unnecessary to deal with the financial problems of state-owned entities in the island. And finally, the bill represents a misallocation of Congressional effort, which would be better spent establishing a Financial Control Board capable of addressing the root causes of Puerto Rico&#8217;s urgent economic, financial, and leadership problems.&#8221;<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>H. R. 870 would amend Title 11 of the United States Code to treat Puerto Rico as a State for purposes of Chapter 9 of such title, enabling the Commonwealth to restructure the indebtedness of its municipalities, namely, its political subdivisions and public agencies and instrumentalities. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><b>Date<\/b>: Thursday, February 26, 2015<br \/><b>Time: <\/b>3:00 p.m. EST\/ 4:00 p.m. AST <br \/><b>Dial-In:<\/b> 877-876-9175, 785-424-1668 | <b>Code:<\/b> AMERICAN<br \/><b>RSVP<\/b>: Arturo Porzecanski,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:aporzeca@american.edu\" target=\"_blank\">aporzeca@american.edu<\/a><\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><i>Written testimony available upon request.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Prof. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.edu\/sis\/faculty\/aporzeca.cfm\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Arturo C. Porzecanski<\/b><\/a> \u2014 Distinguished Economist in Residence and Director of the International Economic Relations Program at American University&#8217;s School of International Service, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.edu\/sis\/faculty\/aporzeca.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">www.american.edu\/sis\/faculty\/aporzeca.cfm<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><span>School of International Service<br \/><\/span><span>American University<br \/>4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW<br \/>Washington, DC 20016-8071<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- #End Wide Release --><\/p>\n<div id=\"divMediaContact\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- #End release --><\/div>\n<p>\n  <\/body><br \/>\n<\/html> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Arturo Porzecanski to Provide Analysis of U.S. House Committee Hearing on Puerto Rico Chapter 9 Bill at 3:00 p.m. Thursday, February 26th Porzecanski will provide a telephone briefing for analysts and journalists about the hearing and his written submission WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2015 \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; On Thursday, February 26 at 3:00 p.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gobierno-y-politica"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}