Diane Rehm Show - The White House and Congress Debate Efforts To Address Puerto Rico’s Growing Economic CrisisThe White House And Congress Debate Efforts To Address Puerto Rico’s Growing Economic Crisis Diane Rehm Show, Wednesday, Feb 03 2016 • 10 am (ET) "The U.S. territory owes its creditors more than $70 billion, and without some kind of financial assistance it’s likely to default on its debt payments before June. There are bipartisan Congressional efforts underway to come up with a lifeline. The strategy could involve giving Puerto Rico access to bankruptcy provisions or creating a federal control board or both, but most agree Puerto Rico’s problems won’t go away unless its long term economic slide can be reversed. Meanwhile, Puerto Rico’s many creditors, including hedge funds and ordinary citizens in the U.S. and in Puerto Rico, face steep losses." Guest Host: Maria Hinojosa Guests Gretchen Sierra-Zorita member, National Puerto Rican Agenda, a coalition of leaders and organizations working on the Puerto Rico fiscal crisis Frances Negrón-Muntaner director, center for the study of ethnicity and race, Columbia University, award-winning filmmaker, writer and scholar Barry Bosworth senior fellow, economic studies, The Brookings Institution Sam Alberts attorney with expertise in financial restructuring and bankruptcy, Dentons