Because Congress needs to act--
I oppose that.
I have no problem accepting our fault in the current crisis. But to pretend it is 100 percent our fault is incorrect and immoral.
The 3.5 million U.S. citizens of Puerto Rico get it. That is why a 54 percent majority voted to end the current status in the plebiscite of ...
Yet, here we are in 2015, and instead of open democratic self-determination, the ideological faction clinging to the status quo insists on o...
I fully support this bill.
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 den...
Not a single territory of the 37 admitted to the Union were deprived of equal economic opportunities and benefits for as long as we have.
Puerto Rican Americans have more than earned their right to equal participation in our Nation's democratic process.
I strongly believe that the people of Puerto Rico should similarly be given the opportunity to exercise their right to establish a permanent...
As a co-sponsor of the Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act, I am persuaded that the island's territorial status is a cause of its economic c...
Puerto Rico's full potential for economic success and job creation will not be realized until economic uncertainty generated by the island's...
There is no legal basis for assigning a meaning to blank ballots on the second question in the 2012 vote.
In this crisis, you say now we are not together.
Congress has authorized each state government to permit its insolvent municipalities to adjust their debts under Chapter 9 of the Bankruptcy...
Territory status is the root cause of the crisis in Puerto Rico, because Puerto Rico is treated unequally under Federal programs.
Puerto Rico's status is intolerable, and my constituents will no longer tolerate it. We want equality under the American flag, and we will s...
You are absolutely right, Madam Congresswoman. That is exactly what we are doing. We are following the path of Alaska and Hawaii.
