Pedro Pierluisi actually said...

the current status is not working as a platform for Puerto Rico's economic development, for our quality of life.

Pierluisi argues that Puerto Rico's current status hinders its economic growth and quality of life.

06/23/2015

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Puerto Rico, with all due respect to the District of Columbia, is not the District of Columbia.

The problem, Mr. Sablan, is that as I was saying, in Alaska they held a referendum, a plebiscite, years before they came a state.

Because Congress needs to act--

I oppose that.