We must show the 3.7 million Americans living in Puerto Rico... that those of us attending today's hearing still hear them when they speak.
I personally don't believe--I have said all along, and don't get upset with me--if you are not going to be a state, you should become an ind...
I have to say you said it very well--couldn't be said better.
When I spoke in this committee room at a hearing earlier this year, I used the term 'colonialism by another name.'
The present system, the status quo, is not working.
The out-migration of what I call the more talented people in Puerto Rico into the mainland is devastating.
Only we can open it up.
If I thought for a moment there was true negotiation, government-to-government, I wouldn't be having this bill.
It was theirs, before. And to take and be this small, and not say it is their right, is wrong.
The final bill on our agenda today, H.R. 2538, would direct the Interior Secretary to take into trust approximately 511 acres of non-contigu...
This is an issue of government-to-government relationships.