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Vol. 2 No. 3
– EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA! –
Special H.R. 856 Edition
Non-Binding Three Choice Puerto Rico
Status Plebiscite Set for House Vote
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Albany Times Union, Anchorage Daily
News, Boston Globe, San Antonio Express-News,
Philadelphia News,
Providence Sunday Journal, Washington Post, Miami Herald,
Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, Chicago Tribune
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It's only
fitting that a Republican Congress should give the people
of Puerto Rico what so many Republican presidents sought
to achieve - a way to determine for themselves the
government they should have. Give them your support for
H.R. 856." - Ralph Reed
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EDITORIAL
COMMENT
"Why deny a people who have waited
500 years to determine their future a chance to do
so?"
"It's appropriate
that an Alaskan is helping lead the fight in Congress to
give the country's longest held colony, Puerto Rico, more
say over it's future."
"Legislators who
vote for this bill will be voting for basic American
ideals."
BI-PARTISAN SUPPORT
Gingrich, DeLay,
Young, Burton, McCollum, Gephardt, Miller,
Romero-Barcelû, Kennedy, Serrano, 80 more, co-sponsor
H.R. 856, Puerto Rico Self-Determination.
HISPANIC
VOTE IN BALANCE
Young Bill passage
critically important in persuading America’s 27
million Hispanics to again back the Republican Party
STATUS CHANGE BENEFITS U.S. TAXPAYERS
Self-Determination will
reduce $13 billion annual Federal subsidy of Puerto Rico
territorial commonwealth.
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PUERTO RICANS
VOTE FOR A CHANGE
H.R. 856
addresses 1993 plebiscite in which a majority of
Puerto Rico's 3.8 million U.S. citizens voted for
a change in the territory's status.
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Puerto Rico's
legislature requested Congress to respond to the
democratic aspirations of the American citizens
of Puerto Rico by approving a plebiscite
sponsored by the Federal government in 1998
(Concurrent Resolution 2, January 23, 1997).
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