{"id":43731,"date":"2015-11-30T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/main-street-bondholders-to-gather-in-washington-to-attend-senate-judiciary-committee-hearing-on-puerto-rico\/"},"modified":"2015-11-30T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T21:55:00","slug":"main-street-bondholders-to-gather-in-washington-to-attend-senate-judiciary-committee-hearing-on-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/main-street-bondholders-to-gather-in-washington-to-attend-senate-judiciary-committee-hearing-on-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Main Street Bondholders to Gather in Washington to Attend Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\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}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Nov. 30, 2015<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; On <span class=\"xn-chron\">Tuesday, December 1<\/span>, Main Street Bondholders from the U.S. mainland and the Commonwealth of <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span> will come to <span class=\"xn-location\">Washington, DC<\/span> to draw attention to their cause as the Senate Judiciary Committee&#8217;s convenes a hearing on the Puerto Rican debt crisis. The Senate hearing is scheduled to feature testimony from <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span> Governor <span class=\"xn-person\">Alejandro Garcia Padilla<\/span> and Banco Popular CEO <span class=\"xn-person\">Richard Carrion<\/span>, as <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico&#8217;s<\/span> leaders continue to lobby Congress to violate the Island&#8217;s Constitution and wipeout bondholders by restructuring all of the Commonwealth&#8217;s public debts.<\/p>\n<p>Main Street Bondholders members will also attend a press conference to speak out against the Governor&#8217;s dangerous and unprecedented plan for <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rather than engaging in a consensual process that has been offered by creditors, Governor <span class=\"xn-person\">Garcia Padilla<\/span> has embarked on a warpath toward total debt avoidance,&#8221; said the 60 Plus Association&#8217;s Vice President <span class=\"xn-person\">Matthew Kandrach<\/span>. &#8220;His actions will eviscerate the Constitution, tarnish <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico&#8217;s<\/span> economic credibility, rattle municipal markets, and destroy the retirement savings of thousands invested in Puerto Rican bonds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, both the <i><span class=\"xn-org\">New York Times<\/span><\/i> and <i>El Nueva Dia<\/i> reported that some of the island&#8217;s largest creditors were willing to engage in a consensual process to address the island&#8217;s fiscal problems.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The members of Main Street Bondholders will be available for questions from media following their remarks.<\/p>\n<p><b>What: <\/b>Main Street Bondholders Press Conference<\/p>\n<p><b>When:<\/b> <span class=\"xn-chron\">Tuesday, December 1<\/span>, immediately following the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing at <span class=\"xn-chron\">10:00 am<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Where: <\/b>Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Capitol Room B \u2013 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, <span class=\"xn-location\">Washington, DC<\/span> 20001<\/p>\n<p><b>RSVP: <\/b>RSVP to <a href=\"mailto:media@mainstreetbondholders.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">media@mainstreetbondholders.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mainstreetbondholders.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>Main Street Bondholders Coalition<\/b><\/a>\u00a0is a project of the 60 Plus Association, and is comprised of small bondholders from across America who are committed to a policy process that returns <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span> to sound financial management, respect for the rule of law, and the protection of their retirement savings.<\/p>\n<p>CONTACT: <span class=\"xn-person\">Janet Wootten<\/span>, 202-506-0606, <a href=\"mailto:media@mainstreetbondholders.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">media@mainstreetbondholders.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Nov. 30, 2015<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; On <span class=\"xn-chron\">Tuesday, December 1<\/span>, Main Street Bondholders from the U.S. mainland and the Commonwealth of <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span> will come to <span class=\"xn-location\">Washington, DC<\/span> to draw attention to their cause as the Senate Judiciary Committee&#8217;s convenes a hearing on the Puerto Rican debt crisis. The Senate hearing is scheduled to feature testimony from <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto&#8230;<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-negocios-y-finanzas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43731","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=43731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}