Luis Gutiérrez: “I want the Record to show that if I had been able to be present in this chamber when these votes were cast, I would have…”

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.

Pass the Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act as soon as possible and together we can help make America a more perfect Union.

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…