Luis Gutiérrez: “And I thank all of the Members for allowing the two Members from Puerto Rico, one who actually lives there and one that…”

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 grant us the equal rights and equal responsibilities that we have earned with the blood of our veterans and the tears of their mothers, wives, children and families.

The United States Congress, which imposes rules, out of our control, which make it impossible to get our act together.

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.