The plebiscite and some presidential and congressional actions since have made important strides towards resolution of the issue.
What the pro-statehood party is asking you, Chairman and this committee, is to be accomplice of that Democratic crime, crime against democra...
This is the most Democratic Nation in the world and you cannot ignore that vote. You need to respond to that vote.
Puerto Rico cannot resolve its status by maintaining the same undemocratic status that my people have endured since 1898.
To expect the administration to feel the same urgency to produce positive results for Puerto Rico as it does for the states is to substitute...
As a Puerto Rican, as a Hispanic American from Puerto Rico and as an American citizen, I feel outraged at the fact that the CRS report compl...
There should be no dispute in this Senate or in Puerto Rico that in response to the results of the plebiscite, this Senate should proceed to...
Congress must take action.
It should come as no surprise, given our lack of political power, that the federal government often uses that license.
You cannot solve the problem of our status by including the very option that was rejected by our people.
To expect a Presidential Administration to feel the same obligation to support Puerto Rico as it does the states is to substitute hope for e...
The wish of the American citizens who voted on this question was clear: Congress should admit Puerto Rico in the Union on an equal footing w...
On November 6th, Puerto Rico withdrew its consent to territory status. The federal government must respect--and respond to--the democratical...
Discussion of status is a way to ignore and to keep ignoring the real issue: denial of voting rights, denial of participating in our nation'...
As American citizens we in Puerto Rico are entitled to equal rights, privileges and benefits as well as equal duties and obligations as all ...
The Puerto Rican electorate served notice last November that they do not wish to continue being governed in the way and through the institut...
Simply put, statehood, for American citizens, is the American way.
I'm not pro-statehood that will make Puerto Rico a Latino ghetto.
