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Does our bill, the Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act, address the concerns by authorizing a self-executing process...

Should Puerto Rico require that?

Is it required to have a federally sponsored referendum as a prerequisite for Congress to act?

Does the U.S. Constitution require a specific level of majority support for statehood in order to admit a territory as a state?

Some argue that the result of November of last year was an invalid or illegitimate mandate for statehood...

Our request is always treat me the same. We are American citizens. Give me the same treatment in all Federal programs.

I know Resident Commissioner Jenniffer Gonzalez suffers through them every day in her tenure in Congress.

Statehood has the majority support in Puerto Rico, and it only will grow if Congress offers it to the people of Puerto Rico.

The problem with H.R. 2070 is the following: it clearly ignores the vote that just happened.

The status of statehood got more votes than any elected official, the Governor, myself, mayors, and state legislators.

Your bill, Resident Commissioner, Congressman Soto's bill, is the right approach.

It is the right thing to do. It is the courageous thing to do, and I welcome the debate.

A yes-or-no vote cannot be fairer. A yes-or-no vote cannot be more inclusive.

We are answering to that request and that request of statehood and equality, with that stated bill.

The least that Congress should be doing is responding to this vote.

The beauty or wisdom of this vote is that it is all-inclusive.

As in any democracy, in Puerto Rico the majority rules.

We are $1 billion short of Nutrition Assistance System in the middle of the disaster.