Puerto Rico Report 5/17/13

Pierluisi presenta proyecto de admisión ante el Congreso federal.doc 356K   View   Download

5-1.15.13 Rep. Pierluisi Final Five-Minute Speech on the Puerto Rico Status Resolution Act.doc 38K   View   Download

Five minute de Proyecto de Estadidad en Espan_ol.docx 190K   View   Download

Puerto Rico Status Resolution Act (May 15, 2013) copy.pdf 38K   View   Download

Proyecto de Ley de Estadidad-1.docx 124K   View   Download

This week in the Puerto Rico Report…

• Thirty-five members of the U.S. House of Representatives proposed statehood legislation for Puerto Rico.  The bill has especially broad support from Florida Congressmen and
  

  Estados Unidos sin Puerto Rico, no es Estados Unidos

  Congresswomen.  http://www.puertoricoreport.org/33-in-congress-propose-statehood/

• Read text of the Puerto Rico Status Resolution Act and see Rep. Pierluisi’s introductory remarks by clicking here.
• Puerto Rico’s “commonwealth” party-dominated legislature this week voted to provide Federal officials with different results of the territory’s political status plebiscite from last November than were certified by the Puerto Rico Elections Commission.  http://www.puertoricoreport.org/commonwealthers-act-to-give-us-officials-false-plebiscite-results/
• There is a new film coming out by Emmy award winning director Juan Agustin Marquez that explores the complex relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States.  See a trailer here.

In case you missed it…

• Some people claim that Puerto Rico became a «Commonwealth» under the terms of 1950s legislation.  This is incorrect.  We’ve got the original language on the Puerto Rico Report that tells a much different story.  http://www.puertoricoreport.org/the-origin-of-the-commonwealth-label/