U.S. Congress - H.R.2499 Puerto Rico Democracy Act of 2009
H.R.2499 - Puerto Rico Democracy Act of 2009
To provide for a federally sanctioned self-determination process for the people of Puerto Rico. view all titles (4)
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- Official: To provide for a federally sanctioned self-determination process for the people of Puerto Rico. as introduced.
- Short: Puerto Rico Democracy Act of 2009 as introduced.
- Short: Puerto Rico Democracy Act of 2009 as reported to house.
- Short: Puerto Rico Democracy Act of 2010 as passed house.
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If Commonwealth status won nothing would occur, however if the other option was triggered a second plebiscite would occur with three option Independence, Free Association, and Statehood. Depending on the outcome no further congressional action would be necessary. However if statehood was approved Congress would still have to approve that request meaning this bill does not grant Puerto Rico statehood! Also I think it should be clearly noted that the shift between the 1967 and 1993 plebiscites indicate that by now a majority of Puerto Ricans support annexation by the United States (i.e. Statehood).
United States gave birth to a child called Puerto Rico. Provided economic support and security and made it grow as one of its own. Covered us with the US Constitution blanket. Gave us US Citizen by birth just like anyone born in Montana or Utah. Does my US citizenship is less a citizenship than somebody in Wyoming?. Can US Government tell a sovereign sate what to do and how?. No!!! Then why can they do it in Puerto Rico (I just remembered we are not “allowed” to have Congressmen or Senators to speak for us) Certainly I am not white or have green eyes but for sure I saved a lot of fellow continental USA caucasians in Irak. I have shared by sweat and blood this patriotism. Same as my budy from Arkansas. Now I fly US Air Force planes but I ask the Congress if they can tell me- and other 4 million american citizens- if I have the right or not to vote to choose my Commander in Chief. That at least. 112 years of this is enough. GIVE US STATEHOOD OR INDEPENDANCE BUT STOP COLONIALISM SLAVERY.
Thank you for fighting for our Freedom and I am not white with blue eyes, Trust me you do not want what we have currently. This is a new type of slavery, wait until there is a President that will honor you and the great Country of Puerto Rico, this one only wants you fo ryour Democratic vote and then will subject you to the dictatorship we are now part of. Read other wizardkar comments
To all of you who are wanting Statehood. It is wrong, and you must not vote for this Statehood. There will be a choice to leave things the way they are or have statehood. But what you are not seeing is the underlying implications. When it comes back again, you will not have the choice to leave things the way they are. The Democrats in the United States are only wanting you to be a part so they can get your votes. They look at you as sheep and not level headed people. Please don’t vote for statehood or you are looking at things alot worse than you have it now. “MARXISM” We see it coming in the states and are offended they would even try and make you follow what we are trying to do away with. There is a hidden agenda in all this and I hate to see the people of Puerto Rico fall for it. YOU ARE MORE INTELLIGENT THAN THAT. Don’t let the United States use you. It is not Democracy it’s control.
You are 100% correct, I live here and Obama is a dictator and does not care what the American people want. I warn you that he has already made some deal with your President and chances are even if you vote you will lose. He is a terrible person and a background of being with radicals such as William Ayres. Further, he was on the board of the Chicago Climate Exchange and no doubt still has ties to it because they are pushing this cap and tax bill which will make him and his cronies trillions. Speak out against Statehood, save yourselves.
Do you really think Puerto Ricans think the US is using them? It’s the other way around, Do you know how many millions of dollars a year go to PR? PRicans wants to stay the way they are, they can get all the money and help while being protected by the US and not paying a dime in taxes. See, part of our hard tax dollars go to the beautiful island of Puerto Rico. PR should either become a State in order for them to pull their own weight and make a LOT of people work instead of living of the federal government or they should BE ON THEIR OWN. On their own, lets see how it does….
EXCUSE ME SIR SINCE THE KOREAN WAR WE SERVED WITH PLEASURE FOR THAT GREAT AMERICAN FLAG TRYNG TO HOLD THE DMZ LINE WHILE THE CHINESE HELP THEM PUSH THE TROOPS BACK ,OH WHAT ABOUT VIETNAM AND WARS AFTER WE WASNT THERE. YOU BETTER CHECK YOUR SELF RICANS DIED FOR THAT GREAT AMERCAN FLAG THAN ANY OTHER HISPANIC GROUP P.S THERES ALOT OF US THAT LIVE IN THE MAIN LAND THAT DO PAY TAXES THE BIG KEY TO STATEHOOD VOTE 99.9 %. ZERO PROPERTY TAX THAT THE HOLD OUT WE ARE WILLING TO PAY MORE FED AND STATE TAX THAN THE MAINLAND BUT ZERO PROPERTY TAX AND EVERONE WILL SIGN ON STATEHOOD.! PLEASE HAVE A LITTLE MORE RESPECT DONT FORGET WE BOTH WASH EACH OTHERS BACKSIDE LAST BUT NOT LEASE BUT ITS OK FOR INTERNATIONAL WELFARE /BUT NOT DOMESTIC WELFARE
If our 111th Congress, in a bi-partisan manner, has the opportunity to provide the United States citizens living in the territory of Puerto Rico the ability to choose between the only two realistic choices, independence or statehood, I will be more than happy to support this bill.
Please read the truth of what is happening here in the States, trust me you do not want this, it will make your living situation worse..Obama is a dictator
I know that what is happening here in the US is not easy for anyone, we are all suffering, all going through some hard times… But trust me, the US is better off letting PR GO or making them a state so they could pull their own weight. Make a search and find all the federal money that goes towards schools, even Federal Agents are taking over PR to do the job of normal police because the Puerto Rican police have a policy called PREVENT. They drive around day and night in their cop cars with the lights on. If the thief, felon, abuser, drug dealer and so one see the lights coming, the PR police think they are going to stop what they are doing, they are preventing. what a joke, they just hide and wait till they are gone to do what they were going to do in the first place. So in other words, the police don’t do anything, crime is soooo bad that the FEDS are all over the island. That my friends, is OUR hard working tax dollars at use in a place that does not pull their own weight.
This country has voted this NO for statehood 4 times. Leave them alone. This is just another slimy Progressive move by Obama and his crimal goons. pivilu, you have been duped. They are taking away choices from Puerto Rico Citizens. That is how Socialism and Marcism work. From there it’s just a short walk to Communism. Learn your history. I agree Obama is a Dictator. I noticed no one has the balls the co-sponser bill. Also, 2 million Puerto Ricans will be added our food stamps program when they become a state. Republicans will vote for it in fear of be called racist Democracts see a larger voting base. There will be 2 senators and 6 congressmen waiting in the halls in DC soon to push this thru. No time to look at it just push it thru.
Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.
Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, November 4, 1775
The New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico (NPP) (Spanish: Partido Nuevo Progresista de Puerto Rico, PNP) is a political party that advocates for Puerto Rico’s admission to the United States of America as the 51st state.
Party members, commonly called penepés or estadistas (“statehooders”) favor the integration of Puerto Rico as the 51st state of the Union.
The majority of the PNP leaders are also members of the US Republican Party, with only two PNP governors, Carlos Romero Barceló, and Dr. Pedro Rosselló González, being registered as US Democrats.
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Progressives are the boils of this nation!
Progressives are in the Democratic and Republican Party. You are right klassylady25 they are the boils of this nation.
Dear God I can so tell who’s watching Glenn Beck and who isn’t. Fools.
First: Puerto Ricans are not getting a “sweet deal.” Beck needs to do some research before he begins to think that we’re getting a free ride on the US taxpayer. Why? Because by and large, Puerto Ricans are taxpayers too!
Second: Puerto Ricans have been asking for a vote like this since 2005. This is not a shocker.
Third: The New Progressive Party is largely REPUBLICAN with a CONSERVATIVE ideology both FISCALLY and SOCIALLY. Fortuno is considered a REPUBLICAN on the island. What’s laughable is that given the vote, Puerto Rico would be RED!!!! Progressive MY ASS. The true “progressives” in Puerto Rico want full independence, NOT STATEHOOD.
Get a clue and get some research.
WOWOWOWOWOW!!! Glen Beck dont know nothing. I heard him the day the bill was introduce and I turn it off!! he was totally out of contest and he sounded racist!!. I had a lot of respect for Beck, but now I completly lost it..
US law already provides mechanism for admission to the Union, and Puerto Rico already has the authority to hold referendums on statehood, and has exercised this right four times. Why do we have to have MORE law? Also, this bill introduces a disturbing precedent. If you were born in Puerto Rico, but are a resident of another state, you are SUPPOSED to vote in this new “plebiscite.” This does not happen in any other state. The normal process is that residents of the territory vote on statehood. Why are residents of other states, who happen to be born in Puerto Rico, given different status than other residents of that state? This bill makes your place of birth more important than your current residence. Imagine the chaos if everyone was given this opportunity. I was born in Washington state but now live in Oregon. Surely I should not be allowed to vote on elections in Washington! But then, I don’t have the right skin color, which unfortunately is still how many judge a person’s worth.
We don’t need ADDITIONAL Liberals in Congress. This is just part of the Chicago Gang trying to insure that America will become bilingual so that when they try to grant amnesty to all of the illegals, there won’t be an issue with the language. We are slowly being taken over by the liberalism world of equality for EVERYONE, while those of us who have worked our entire lives, will be sharing our hard earned social security with those who have never earned a dime legally!
If this Bill is so good? WHY ALL THE SECRECY????? More Fraud and Backroom Deals from the SWAMP LEADER NANCY PELOSI!!!!!!
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you have to be kidding me and by the way that presedent support statehood for PR. You need to get educated first then talk.
Puerto Rico should be its own sovereign nation.
WE WILL BE A STATE
This bill is skewed towards statehood, which the Puerto Ricans themselves don’t want.
Why you say that we will vote i belive me if this come to be a law we will vote for stehood, you need to move here and live for couple of years then you can talk.
The problem with this bill is that it’s dishonest. Rather than an up and down vote for statehood (which has failed three times), this bill plays games to direct the outcome. Calling it a “Democracy Act” is a joke.
puerto rico tiene que ser una nacion libre desde el añ0 1950 con la dirrecion del dr.pedro albizu campos se declaro la republica de puerto rico y enviamos unos compatriotas a llevarle el mensa a el gobierno de estados unidos fue lolita lebron andres fiqueroa rafael cancel y luego enviamos a oscar collazo y griselio torresola quienes fuero nuestros comisionados verdaderos y que fuero a pedir la libertad de nuestra nacion .el partido nacionalista de puerto rico movimiento libertador le recuerda que deben de leer la historia para que procedan de acuerdo a el derecho internacional ya las naciones unidas se pronuncio con la resolucion que este aÑo se acaba el coloniaje asi que no se dejen enganar con el mentiroso pierlusi que funje como espia en wasghigton.nosotros queremos nuestra libertad .
La querras tu nada mas loko.. Aprende, P.R libre, pa ningun lao que va.. Sera pa q paremos en las mismas de venezuela y cuba. Estaras tu loko. sigue so~nando. ESTADO 51! es lo mejor q le puede pasar a nuestra isla.
I feel they should be able to vote for the President if they can vote in the primaries. Other than that I don’t see why they need to become a state, they already pay taxes and are subject to Congress’ laws.
Shame on our representatives for voting yes on this resolution!!! Make no mistake about it; they fully understand that by passing this they are one step closer to installing more progressive Senators and Representatives. The obvious question is “why now”? If they were looking out for us, they would have been focusing attention on job creation! I DISTRUST THEM…..
Aloha Dankarlo.
I agree with you about the distrust for our government. You asked “why now?”
It is about collecting as many “countries” under your belt to try and build a better stance against others. For example: if you check out the website for the Executive Office of the President you will find plenty of interesting relations between the United States government and other countries. But it will also make you wonder – how the hell!!??!!
This will probably help you understand better why our representatives voted yes.
The more “progressive” (controlling of power) a government can become, the greater the benefits.
Like you, I too distrust this government – and I worry about this country and her peoople.