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Our Nation is being ridiculed for its hypocrisy in spending billions of dollars and putting its young men and women in harm's way to bring democracy to people who don't want it or don't understand it, while at the same time they deny…
Yes, we are tired and increasingly upset by being denied the right to vote for our President, and the right to elect two Senators and Members of Congress that we would be entitled to as a state.
How can Congress raise the issue of our non-payment of Federal income taxes when you know that we don't have the power to impose Federal income taxes on income earned in Puerto Rico?
We are tired and increasingly upset to have to plead and beg for equal terms in Federal grants for education for our children.
Yes, the permanent solution to Puerto Rico's economic problems, social problems, is equal rights, is equality.
Quality of life is deteriorating incredibly fast. I see a bright future for Puerto Rico, because of the potential, the capacity of our people.
My bill, which has 108 co-sponsors--including me, 109--basically has a two-step process.
I have a bill before this Congress proposing to fix all these disparities we have in Medicaid, Medicare.
To me, that is atrocious. It is unacceptable.
The U.S. Government is not even funding----
As long as Puerto Rico remains a territory--without equal treatment under Federal programs, forced to borrow heavily to make up the difference and without the ability to vote for the national leaders who regulate our economy--the island…
The current status is not working as a platform for Puerto Rico's economic development, for our quality of life.
You are absolutely right, Madam Congresswoman. That is exactly what we are doing. We are following the path of Alaska and Hawaii.
If Congress takes no action and the colonialist PPD prevails in Puerto Rico's 2016 election, the undemocratic bankrupt territory of extreme dependency will continue to breed support for statehood.
Puerto Ricans have only me, a Resident Commissioner. I can debate, I can speak, but I cannot vote on the Floor--and I represent 3.5 million American citizens.
We are hopeful that the court will uphold the legality of the Recovery Act as a means of addressing Puerto Rico's fiscal crisis.
I am sure that, once we put Puerto Rico on the path to statehood, we will grow, we will have a better quality of life, and our people will stay in Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico would be receiving billions of additional funding that would flow into our economy if we become a state.