Luis Gutiérrez: “My solution would save the American taxpayers a lot of grief and a lot of money by eliminating the need for the…”

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.

So, don't let anyone tell you that statehood will somehow diminish our cultural pride and heritage.

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…

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