6 Things People Think Trump Said about Puerto Rico
A number of statements about Puerto Rico have been attributed to Donald Trump, but not all those claims are accurate. Here are a few of… Read More »6 Things People Think Trump Said about Puerto Rico
A number of statements about Puerto Rico have been attributed to Donald Trump, but not all those claims are accurate. Here are a few of… Read More »6 Things People Think Trump Said about Puerto Rico
As we recently noted, the new Congress has declared that the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico will be allowed to cast votes in the House… Read More »Democracy 101: Why Committee “Votes” Don’t Make Non-Voting Territorial Representatives “Voting Members” of Congress
House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) sent a letter to House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-TX) asking that the Resident Commissioner from Puerto… Read More »Dem Whip Steny H. Hoyer Requests Vote for Territorial Delegates
Jenniffer González, the new Resident Commissioner for Puerto Rico, is confident that the time is ripe for statehood for Puerto Rico, according to an interview… Read More »Incoming Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Confident about Relationship with Trump
The U.S. Census Bureau has released new figures for Puerto Rico. These numbers compare Puerto Rico at the time of the most recent census with… Read More »New Census Data on Puerto Rico
It has often been said that the Jones-Shafroth Act, which brought U.S. citizenship to the people of Puerto Rico in 1917, was motivated by the need… Read More »Was Puerto Rican Citizenship All about the Draft?
The people of Puerto Rico are natural-born citizens of the United States. This has been true since 1917, when Congress gave citizenship to everyone born… Read More »Rep. Alan Grayson Calls for Presidential Votes for Puerto Rico
Vice President-elect Mike Pence did not discuss Puerto Rico during the campaign, but he did make a statement on the subject in 2010 during congressional… Read More »Mike Pence’s Statement on Puerto Rico
Pedro Pierluisi, Puerto Rico’s Resident Commissioner for the past eight years, delivered his final floor speech on December 7th, 2016. Beginning with thanks to his… Read More »Pierluisi: Puerto Rico’s Territory Status Undignified, Unsustainable