If these cuts were to remain unchanged, it would mean that the Office of Insular Affairs would not be able to award any more Technical Assis...
Let us not forget we are also a nation of immigrants. While we have every right to regulate immigration, enforce our immigration laws, it ma...
If the rule or the law is not working, you change it.
As my colleagues and I travel around our Nation, we hear a consistent message from the American people: Fix our broken immigration system by...
Sensible worksite enforcement designed to identify and penalize those employers who violate Federal law is one important aspect of our Natio...
However, unless we do more, an enforcement-only approach will hurt the economy and cost American jobs over the long term.
H.R. 2499 creates 'an artificial majority for statehood' because the territorial 'Commonwealth' option is, or was not competing directly wit...
Puerto Ricans are proud Americans who suffer second-class citizenship that is not constitutionally-guaranteed.
H.R. 2499, for the first time, will allow voters to choose directly with their vote.
The intervening months have only strengthened my conviction that the proposed constitution, despite its many flaws, must be returned to the ...
The proposed constitution is not merely a legal document; it is, however flawed, a symbol of the Virgin Islands' right to self-determination...
It is inconceivable that some 45 years since the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964... are denied to four million of our citizens.
It was approved in a strong bipartisan vote at a time that we all know bipartisanship is in short supply.
The sad truth is that, since joining the American family 112 years ago, my people have never had a meaningful voice in their national govern...
There is no more significant step in reaching that goal than drafting and ratifying our own constitution.
The purpose of the bill is straightforward. What Congress is doing is authorizing the Government of Puerto Rico to conduct one or more plebi...
I must re-affirm the fundamental principle that the proposed constitution represents: the right of the people of the Virgin Islands to gover...
Laws enacted by Congress often treat residents of Puerto Rico worse than their fellow citizens in the states.
