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The House Natural Resources Committee approved the Puerto Rico Democracy Act last July. This would create at least one plebiscite in the Caribbean territory to survey the population about what they want their status to be. The bill will come up to the floor for a vote this year.
Both the Democratic and Republican parties are trying to charm Hispanics in this election year.
"Every Republican president in the last 50 years has supported this process," Fortuno said in an interview. "President Reagan was a strong supporter of this process, and actually of statehood as well."
The pending legislation will not be finite. It will simply allow Congress to conduct an official suvey of Puerto Rico citizans to discover their desires for statehood or not. Congress would then proceed how it sees fit.
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