Thomas Rivera Schatz: “This Committee should use its jurisdictional power... to enact…”

On the recordOctober 21, 2019

This Committee should use its jurisdictional power... to enact legislation that will do away with our second-class status as a colony.

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Urges Congress to admit Puerto Rico as a state to address its economic crisis.

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Thomas Rivera Schatz: “This Committee should use its jurisdictional power... to enact legislation that will do away with our second-class…”