|
|
Vol. 2 No. 4
– EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA! –
Special H.R. 856 Edition
Non-Binding Three Choice Puerto Rico
Status Plebiscite Set for House Vote
|
|
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
|
|
"I
think that it is time that we respond to the aspirations
of the 3.8 million U.S citizens of Puerto Rico and allow
them to determine their ultimate political status...
Congress ought to give them a chance to do that, what
they want their relationship to the United States to
be." - Bill Clinton, 2/23/98
|
WASHINGTON POST
"A
commitment to democracy should drive Americans to ensure
Puerto Ricans full and equal rights as American citizens.
It has been, after all, 100 years" 2/23/98
RALPH REED URGES G.O.P.
TO PASS H.R. 856
"For the first time in 100 years, the people of
Puerto Rico will have the opportunity to decide their
political future in free and fair elections... 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."
BI-PARTISAN SUPPORT
Gingrich, DeLay,
Young, Burton, McCollum, Gephardt, Miller,
Romero-Barceló, 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
|
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.
|
STATUS CHANGE BENEFITS U.S. TAXPAYERS ALSO
Self-Determination will
reduce $13 billion annual Federal subsidy of Puerto Rico
territorial commonwealth.
|
|
