Jenniffer González-Colón: “The bill was filed on March 2, in commemoration of the 104th anniversary of the granting of U.S. citizenship to Puerto…”

Under the terms of the Freely Associated agreements, compact citizens can migrate and work in the United States but they are not U.S. citizens or nationals.

Puerto Rico is not included in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.

I have introduced legislation that will add these crops as priority research areas for the Department of Agriculture.

Puerto Rico received a D-minus score by the American Society of Civil Engineers scorecard published in 2019 because the bridges, ports, and roads are among the lowest grades per individual category.