Pedro Pierluisi actually said...

The current economic crisis is a cruel manifestation that territorial status is not a sustainable model for the political economy of America...

This Congress must address the issue and consider enacting a bill to provide for the admission of Puerto Rico as a state.

We are, as a matter of fact, the world's last colony with more than 1 million (1,000,000) inhabitants.

The solid majority vote for statehood in 2012 cannot be ignored.