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Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle have said they want to do more to prepare Puerto Rico for the next hurricane. Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah), chairman of the House committee that oversees Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories, told POLITICO on Tuesday that he plans to hold a hearing on ways to improve the commonwealth’s electrical grid.

Congressional Democrats are also pushing for a commission similar to the one that was created to study failures leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks to study the administration’s response to Maria. So far no Republicans have committed to cooperate on legislation to create that commission, though the Government Accountability Office, a government watchdog agency, has agreed to study the death toll.

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