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 differen...
Puerto Rico is a territory. If it does not wish to remain a territory, it can become a state or a sovereign nation.
It takes real patriotism to fight for a nation you love, but one that does not treat you equally.
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 d...
Whether we demand equality or not, it is the Congress and the President's duty, as leaders of the world's greatest democracy, to put an end ...
It is way past the time when Congress and the President should have put an end to our disenfranchisement and to our being denied equal oppor...
Puerto Rico is treated unequally under Medicaid and Medicare.
I have introduced a bill in Congress to give Puerto Rico state-like treatment under Chapter 9.
The solid majority vote for statehood in 2012 cannot be ignored.
We are, as a matter of fact, the world's last colony with more than 1 million (1,000,000) inhabitants.
This Congress must address the issue and consider enacting a bill to provide for the admission of Puerto Rico as a state.
The current economic crisis is a cruel manifestation that territorial status is not a sustainable model for the political economy of America...
That is why a 54 percent majority voted to end the current status in the plebiscite of 2012.
Yet, instead of open democratic self-determination, the ideological faction clinging to the status quo insists on obstructing the will of th...
Puerto Rico doctors who serve traditional, fee-for-service Medicare patients are unfairly treated under the current Practice Expense Geograp...
I want to use my time not to explain this simple bill or to itemize the many reasons why it is good policy, but rather to underscore the bro...
This is a critical admission. You are basically saying we think the law Congress enacted for the 50 States is imperfect.
