Roy Blunt: “Alaska, which the majority leader wondered about the population there, has 626,000 people. Wyoming has about…”

“Alaska, which the majority leader wondered about the population there, has 626,000 people. Wyoming has about 420,000-some people. In terms of the decision to have the relationship with the Territories, that was not made anticipating that the Territories would be represented as States are represented. That is the plain and simple truth of it. If it had been, there probably would have been a different thought about how you treat both Puerto Rico and American Samoa. This is a debate that I am sure a dozen years ago was widely discussed as a debate that should be had as a constitutional debate. If your vote in the Committee of the Whole is going to matter, it shouldn't be reversible by a vote by the body that doesn't include those five representatives. We have Wednesday to discuss this, and I am sure that we will. I am glad to get the notification, although I think on an issue like this that clearly was a huge issue a dozen years ago, that notification on the floor is a little later than I would have hoped for.”