it probably makes sense to go straight to a--to one vote on the 4 options.

Statehood is the arrangement under the Federal system under which American citizens, residing in a body politic, can actually enjoy the same benefits and obligations that other citizens residing in other States have.

The defining element of free association in international law is that the parties be sovereign nations that remain sovereign.

First of all, on behalf of the 4 million American citizens that reside in Puerto Rico, but especially the men and women that have served in uniform in defense of democracy since 1917, I cannot put a price tag on their lives, I'm very sorry.

Congress would have to act to change Puerto Rico's status.

Individuals born in Puerto Rico would be citizens of Puerto Rico and not the United States.

I strongly believe HR 2499 is the wrong way for Congress to address our political status issue since it does not signify a true, fair and democratic process of self determination.

H.R. 2499 would enable the preferences of Puerto Ricans, among the real status alternatives, to finally be ascertained.

Cynically entitled 'The Puerto Rican Democracy Act,' the bill purports to advance the principle of self-determination, yet it proposes the continuation of the colonial status of unincorporated territory.

I think that the issue of the status of Puerto Rico not only affects the lives of all Puerto Ricans...

This bill will, at long last, give us that chance. What would be more right?