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The almost 4 million disenfranchised U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico count on your support to secure our equal rights and responsibilities.

The only way to address this situation whereby our constitutional rights are never the same if we live in a territory is to either move to one of the 50 states or become a state.

I firmly believe independence is not the right economic answer to our situation.

We ask that you present a Puerto Rico statehood admission bill with the above terms and others that are considered fair.

We ask Congress to end this tax abuse, and eliminate Section 933 of the Internal Revenue Code immediately.

Mr. Chairman, the citizens of Puerto Rico are outraged by these shameful tax benefits given to a few hundred millionaires, while the rest of us have been subject to multiple tax increases by the present Administration in the last 3 years.

You have the power to help Puerto Rico. Now you must exercise it.

You have the power to help Puerto Rico now; exercise it! You have the moral obligation to end the trite pilgrimage of Puerto Ricans looking for the status question to be resolved; move forward.

The time has come for you to recognize that you are masters in somebody else's land.

Puerto Rico has been denied these tools far too long, and as long as our options are defined by the powers of this Congress, we will always be at your mercy.

No country, no state, no jurisdiction has gotten out of a crisis like ours without a bankruptcy law, a central bank intervention or help from outside.

If the U.S. Government and its people do not realize soon Puerto Rico is a problem that needs to be addressed with new thinking and new approach, the United States will soon wake up with a new domestic crisis with international…

The Federal Government cannot say that we "remain, as it is today, subject to the Territory Clause of the U.S. Constitution" in order to deny Puerto Rico the powers to solve our economic and social crisis, and now turn around and say they…

I fully support this bill.

I firmly believe the United States has to be part of the solution to Puerto Rico's economic and debt crises.

No matter what you may think or want to believe, we are in this together.

Together, we will suffer the dislocations of uncontrollable migration.

In this crisis, you say now we are not together.