Message to the Congress on Legislative Priorities
09/11/1974
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By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 3347 of Title 5 and Section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code,...
Our country and all mankind will always need people like you whose energy, whose imagination reveal our country's greate...
The social and economic progress to which they aspire cannot come without the political equality of statehood.
I SUBMIT herewith to the Congress the Puerto Rico Statehood Act of 1977.