Dr.
Miriam Ramirez de Ferrer to Run for Puerto Rico At-large Senate
Seat
California
Legislators Present Self-Determination Resolution to Puerto Rico
Senate
Puerto
Rico: America's Bulwark of Democracy
Puerto
Rico Herald Calls On Congress To Pass Federal Plebiscite Legislation
US ELECTIONS
SPUR PUERTO RICO SELF-DETERMINATION
INTERVIEW
WITH RICK DOVALINA - President, League of United Latin American
Citizens (LULAC)
Puerto Rico Herald
Launches Spanish Edition - 10/02/1998
WHITE PAPER:
THE PROMISE OF CITIZENSHIP
WHITE PAPER:
RESOLVING PUERTO RICO'S POLITICAL STATUS
S.
472, PUERTO RICO SELF-DETERMINATION ACT, WORKSHOP 1 (COMPLETE
TRANSCRIPT)
THE
YOUNG BILL: PUERTO RICO SELF-DETERMINATION – HISTORY, ISSUES
& HOUSE PASSAGE
MAINLAND
HISPANIC AMERICAN SUPPORT TIED TO CONGRESSIONAL VOTES ON PUERTO
RICO SELF-DETERMINATION BILLS
PUERTO
RICO'S SEARCH FOR IDENTITY, SELF-RESPECTAND EQUALITY AFTER 100
YEARS OF AMERICAN ADMINISTRATION
HOUSE
APPROVES HISTORIC YOUNG BILL MEASURE ON SELF-DETERMINATION FOR
PUERTO RICO
THE HOUSE VOTE
Clinton Endorses
H.R 856: Puerto Rico Self-Determination
Mainland
newspapers support Young Bill calling for Puerto Rico self-determination.
Editorials also back statehood for Puerto Rico if voters choose
that status in proposed 1998 plebiscite.
Puerto
Rico's 3.8 Million US Citizens join the celebration of America's
221st birthday on Independence Day - The mark-up of the US-Puerto
Rico Political Status Act, H.R. 856 (The "Young Bill")
Issues
on Citizenship, Sovereignty, and Language dominate the status
forum - Questions regarding sovereignty, citizenship
and increased powers for the island kept congressmen busy in
the hearings held in San Juan and Mayaguez...
Hearings
are held in San Juan on "U.S. Puerto Rico Political Status
Act"
Independence
Party Presents Definition
The
Definition of Independence
Popular
Democratic Party Reacts to Young Bill with a New Commonwealth
Definition
In-Depth Analysis
of the PDP Definition
U.S Supreme
Court and Department of Justice Positions
Constitutional
Implications of the Commonwealth Proposal
President
Clinton expresses support for the Young Bill - "totally
committed in working with the Committee on Resources, the House
of Representatives, and other groups of Congress and selected
leaders from Puerto Rico to establish the decolonization process
as soon as possible."...
New Bill
Introduced in Senate
Solomon is
Back - Representative Gerald Solomon (R-NY) will
not give up his fight to include English to be the language used
in education for Puerto Rico as a state...
Representatives
Visit the Island - Frank H. Murkowski, President
of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Democrat Senator
for Hawaii, Daniel Akaka, and John Kyl, Republican Senator for
Arizona visited Puerto Rico during three days. The purpose of
the visit was to gather information...
Congress
held hearings Today on "US-Puerto Rico Political Status
Act"
Bipartisan
coalition of lawmakers calls for passage of H.R. 856 providing
for Puerto Rico self-determination
