Jenniffer González Colón testifies in the federal Senate on the grid and LUMA

On June 17, 2026, the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources holds a hearing to examine the state of the territories. Governor Jenniffer González Colón testifies at 10:00 a.m. in Dirksen 366, alongside the governors of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Ranking member Martin Heinrich asks about LUMA, the electric grid, and the successor operator. The written testimony stays in the committee file. The federal Senate page returned 403 when opened for this desk; only those ledger facts are written. A paragraph of the testimony is not invented.

That same June 17, this desk already has a published kernel: Jenniffer González Colón before the federal Senate on Medicaid. Another hearing, another URL, another topic. Here the beat is ENR, grid, and LUMA. This note is not used to reopen Medicaid rates or CMS allocations. Nor is it fused with the AAA Committee of the Whole El Nuevo Día covered that day in San Juan, nor with the public-housing cisterns La Fortaleza announced from Washington: three acts, three sources.

On June 19, La Fortaleza would celebrate the First Circuit's rejection of LUMA's stay. On the 23rd, Metro would recount the counterclaim. On the 17th, in Dirksen, Heinrich asks about the successor. There is in the ledger no substitute-consortium name said at the hearing. It is not put.

What remain are the hour, the room, the five territories, and Martin Heinrich's question on LUMA. The committee URL is at the foot, even though the fetch failed. This is not original reporting.

Source: U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. https://www.energy.senate.gov/hearings/2026/6/hearing-to-examine-the-state-of-the-u-s-territories