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Pedro Pierluisi: “I firmly believe that statehood, economically, is not the alternative.”

On the recordJune 23, 2015
I firmly believe that statehood, economically, is not the alternative.
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Pedro Pierluisi
Democratic · Puerto Rico

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Pierluisi argues against statehood for Puerto Rico from an economic perspective.

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