"Four years under the previous Administration of concerted efforts to dismantle healthcare, aggravate the disparity that already exists, undercut and sabotage Obamacare, that didn't occur."
"The tax cuts to the super wealthy that have skewed and affected the services that the American people need and demand from their government, and the punitive refugee and immigration policies that were..."
"Grijalva, Hon. Raul M., a Representative in Congress from the State of Arizona."
"We are meeting today for a second day of hearings on H.R. 1522, the Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act, and H.R. 2070, the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act of 2021."
"I want to thank the Department for submitting the information to the Committee in a timely manner."
"This issue is a divisive issue in Congress for both parties."
"I recognize this Committee's responsibility in playing a leading and constructive role in resolving this issue."
"The Committee is approaching a decision-making point, which is what the residents of Puerto Rico expect and deserve."
"Congress must immediately end its inherently colonial territorial rule over Puerto Rico, because it violates America's values of democracy, equal justice under the law, and government by the consent o..."
"A majority of voters in Puerto Rico have requested statehood, now Congress must respond by officially offering it and allowing voters on the island to ratify their choice in a binding vote."
"To turn around and tell voters to go back to the drawing board and re-define multiple other options which the majority has rejected three times in the last eight years in favor of statehood, would not..."
"We are natural born U.S. citizens and want an equal seat at the table in the federal government that writes and implements the laws that we live under."