"Puerto Rico is treated as a Foreign Entity for IRC tax purposes."
"Congress needs to keep moving forward on this because Puerto Rico can't stay in limbo any longer."
"It is important that the U.S. Congress take action on the referred case and enforce the rights of the Constitution for all U.S. citizens with equality."
"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."
"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..."
"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..."