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 Assistance grants for the remaining seven months of this fiscal year.

I commend the Administration's efforts to increase its request for the State and Tribal Wildlife Grants Programs and for making other strategic choices to protect American jobs, and to preserve sustainable industries including hunting…

I would also like to remind you that our U.S. citizens living in the offshore Territories of the United States face unique challenges posed by our geographic isolation, our historic under development, and our constitutional status.

I am also interested in the Service's research to conserve manatees in both Florida and Puerto Rico.

I would respectfully urge this Subcommittee to work closely with the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development to appropriate necessary funds under the Insular Energy Program in FY 2012 and beyond.

If the rule or the law is not working, you change it.

Let us not forget we are also a nation of immigrants. While we have every right to regulate immigration, enforce our immigration laws, it makes no sense to demonize immigrants in America.

I am compelled to respond to remarks delivered yesterday on this floor by my colleague, the gentleman from Illinois, in which he harshly criticized the duly elected government of Puerto Rico and the island's chief Federal judge. The speech…

As my colleagues and I travel around our Nation, we hear a consistent message from the American people: Fix our broken immigration system by enacting comprehensive reform.

Sensible worksite enforcement designed to identify and penalize those employers who violate Federal law is one important aspect of our Nation's approach to immigration policy.

However, unless we do more, an enforcement-only approach will hurt the economy and cost American jobs over the long term.

I will be brief. Let me just say that there are 435 Members of this House; there are five Delegates representing the territories. Each and every one of these districts and the territories has its own peculiar needs, and the Members should…

I rise in strong opposition to this amendment. I requested $150,000 to purchase equipment for a community and recreational park for low-income children in Yauco, Puerto Rico, a city in the southwestern part of the island. The park will be…

58 years ago this Sunday, the Constitution of Puerto Rico took effect. As we mark this occasion, it is appropriate to reflect on the progress that Puerto Rico has made in fulfilling the aspirations expressed in our Constitution and to…

The defining element of free association in international law is that the parties be sovereign nations that remain sovereign.

I think that the issue of the status of Puerto Rico not only affects the lives of all Puerto Ricans...

What is wrong is to, after 112 years, have formerly American citizens residing under conditions that are so unequal to their counterparts in the mainland.

Cynically entitled 'The Puerto Rican Democracy Act,' the bill purports to advance the principle of self-determination, yet it proposes the continuation of the colonial status of unincorporated territory.