On the recordFebruary 9, 1999
You still face tough decisions.
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congress.govYou still face tough decisions.
Emphasizing the ongoing difficulties in budgetary decision-making despite surplus.
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It is legal fiction which assumes that the people of Puerto Rico somehow will exercise their sovereignty and choose whatever path they choose, when, in fact, that sovereignty does not lie there.
Do not be deceived by the fact that only because we speak Spanish and we enjoy the freedoms of this United States, that the majority will immediately choose to be one way or the other; democrat or republican.
We have held a more than one referendum in which the majority of the people have voted, unequivocally for statehood.