U.S. Congress - Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, (R)

On February 05, 2008 Ginny Brown-Waite was featured on the homepage of OpenCongress:

Virginia Brown-Waite's (R-FL) recent <a href="http://brown-waite.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=82799">statement</a> that residents of Guam and Puerto Rico are"foreign citizens" and should not get a tax rebate check, has stirred up a controversy. In a letter to her, Puerto Rico's D.C. representative wrote, "Your comments … complaining that Puerto Ricans are ‘foreign citizens’ and should not benefit from the federal economic stimulus plan were not only wrong but also highly insensitive.”