If there were a compact, Congress would no longer have the power to modify Puerto Rico's government unilaterally.
The answer is NO.
Yet it deprives them of an offer of statehood, which they have never had, they just asked for, and only Congress can deliver.
As we did after the 2020 election all across the country, Democrats respect democratic election results and should respect Puerto Rico's dec...
I strongly oppose statehood for Puerto Rico, a position shared by the members of the Frente.
Puerto Ricans do not need a congressional invitation to debate these options, and they can keep right on debating them even after Congress o...
Congresswoman Velazquez who is the main sponsor of the other bill which I will soon discuss came to Puerto Rico and urged voters to reject s...
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 tha...
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 ...
any such process needs to be fair, inclusive, and democratic.