Raúl Grijalva

Consider as constitutionally viable only to start holding hearings on how the American Citizens residents of Puerto Rico can have equal rights and government by the consent of the governed.

No one in Puerto Rico wants independence, nor continue to be confused with political status alternatives which do not fit within the U.S. constitutional framework.

I respectfully suggest that you consider proposing to Congress to declare Puerto Rico officially an Incorporated Territory of the United States in transit to statehood.

If you really believe in democracy, justice, government by the consent of the governed, you must not hesitate any further or give any more excuses.

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.

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.

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 only be insulting to us, but…

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 of the governed.

I want to thank the Department for submitting the information to the Committee in a timely manner.

I recognize this Committee's responsibility in playing a leading and constructive role in resolving this issue.

This issue is a divisive issue in Congress for both parties.

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.

The Committee is approaching a decision-making point, which is what the residents of Puerto Rico expect and deserve.

Grijalva, Hon. Raul M., a Representative in Congress from the State of Arizona.

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 the hallmark of the previous…

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 attack on January 6 on our democracy forgotten; just a mere walk in the park.

As you have heard already today, and the drumbeat will continue that it is your fault, and by extension the fault of the Biden administration for any perceived or real ills that are affecting the American people.

I do not feel that the $300.00 bonus is keeping people out of work.

There needs to be pressure and support from others who do in order to bring the Congress together

The Constitution grants Congress . . . the power to acquire, dispose of, and govern territory, not the power to decide when and where [the Constitution's] terms apply.

I commend House Resources Chair Raul Grijalva and the bipartisan co-sponsors of H. Res. 279 who call on the Insular Cases to be rejected in their entirety.

It's time that we treated those workers equally.

Systemic racist is the standard that codified into law in 1938.

Democracy is about participating in the decisions that affect your lives.