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Yet, here we are in 2015, and instead of open democratic self-determination, the ideological faction clinging to the status quo insists on obstructing the will of the people as so clearly expressed in the 2012 plebiscite.
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.
If the U.S. Government and its people do not realize soon Puerto Rico is a problem that needs to be addressed with new thinking and new approach, the United States will soon wake up with a new domestic crisis with international…
If you give us the same rights and responsibilities as our fellow American citizens, and let us rise or fall on our merits, we will rise.
Puerto Rico is a territory. If it does not wish to remain a territory, it can become a state or a sovereign nation.
Thus, I have introduced a comprehensive bill to essentially provide Puerto Rico with state-like treatment under Medicaid and Medicare.
The solid majority vote for statehood in 2012 cannot be ignored.
Every informed observer understands that territory status is the root cause of the economic, social and demographic crisis in Puerto Rico
To me, this is a political will situation, not a legal question.
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…
Territory status is the root cause of the crisis in Puerto Rico, because Puerto Rico is treated unequally under Federal programs.
my constituents cannot vote for president, are not represented in the Senate, and have one non-voting delegate in the House
I have a bill before this Congress proposing to fix all these disparities we have in Medicaid, Medicare.
There is no legal basis for assigning a meaning to blank ballots on the second question in the 2012 vote.
You are absolutely right, Madam Congresswoman. That is exactly what we are doing. We are following the path of Alaska and Hawaii.
Puerto Rico, with all due respect to the District of Columbia, is not the District of Columbia.