I believe that the reason why we come here is because the 4 million U.S. citizens that I represent deserve a fair playing field to express their feelings as to their status, and only Congress can provide for that.
Fortuno emphasizes the need for Puerto Ricans to express their status preferences through Congress.
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We should also go down there to fill our minds with their ideas, their aspirations, and their dreams.
Where are the jobs? Where is the economic opportunity? Where is the possibility for the people of Puerto Rico?
Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States of America. Puerto Rico is war booty from the war in 1898.
The current economic crisis is a cruel manifestation that territorial status is not a sustainable model for the political economy of America's last large and populous territory.
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