Pedro Pierluisi actually said...

H.R. 727 would authorize a federally-sponsored vote to be held in Puerto Rico by the end of 2017, with a ballot containing a single question: 'Shall Puerto Rico be admitted as a state of the United States'?

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Pierluisi introduced a bill for Puerto Rico's statehood vote.

06/23/2015

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