07/19/2021
https://congress.gov...
"By doing so, they seem to adopt the same reasoning used by racist and xenophobic Justices of the Supreme Court in the early 20th century that decided the infamous Insular Cases."
"However proponents of this alternative approach to label it, anything short of statehood is colonial and unequal."
"It would be cruel to have our people, the constituents I represent, go through years of endless debates and back and forth engagements with Congress, only to be left out in the end with no response to..."
"any such process needs to be fair, inclusive, and democratic."