{"id":133459,"date":"2021-02-15T10:51:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T15:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=133459"},"modified":"2021-02-15T11:28:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T16:28:38","slug":"puerto-rico-gov-says-he-expects-statehood-legislation-by-march-with-considerable-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/puerto-rico-gov-says-he-expects-statehood-legislation-by-march-with-considerable-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico Gov. Says He Expects Statehood Legislation By March With \u2018Considerable Support\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpuerto-rico-gov-says-he-expects-statehood-legislation-by-march-with-considerable-support%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=133459&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-542499510.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi says he fully expects legislation proposing Puerto Rican statehood by mid-March at the latest, and is anticipating \u201cconsiderable support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Pierluisi, Congress is \u201cmorally obligated\u201d to act on granting statehood to Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I anticipate is that there will be considerable support for a statehood bill in this Congress,\u201d Pierluisi told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/puerto-rico-governor-statehood-axios-hbo-1ed4d002-8e46-4387-8de7-95b86631bb8c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Axios on HBO<\/a>. The legislation, he confidently said, will be \u201cintroduced in the House \u2026 at the latest by mid-March of this year, so within a month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor said he knows this because he\u2019s spoken with Rep. Darren Soto (D-FL) and <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">Del. Jenniffer Gonz\u00e1lez-Col\u00f3n of Puerto Rico, as well as received calls from \u201c<\/span>members of the Senate inquiring about this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After it was noted that Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) has not given her full support to statehood,&nbsp;Pierluisi said he\u2019d love to change her mind. \u201cI&nbsp;would love to have her support and I don\u2019t rule out convincing her to join me in the way that I\u2019m approaching this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. could be expanding by admitting Puerto Rico into the union,\u201d the governor said, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/538847-puerto-rico-governor-congress-morally-obligated-to-act-on-statehood-vote\">according<\/a> to The Hill. \u201cIt would be telling the world that it is embracing diversity because this would be a truly, completely Hispanic state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStatehood is not a panacea,\u201d Pierluisi added. \u201cOf course we have to do better. But there\u2019s no question that having two senators and four representatives in Congress batting for us when needed would make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As noted by The Hill, \u201cPuerto Ricans currently cannot vote for president in the general election and do not have full voting members of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Granting statehood to Washington, D.C., and&nbsp;Puerto Rico, both issues pushed by some Democrats, could help Democrats pick up more Senate seats and electoral votes in national elections.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/dc-politics\/dc-statehood-bowser\/2021\/01\/07\/91eeacae-511d-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html\">noted<\/a> by The Washington Post, Democratic D.C.&nbsp;Mayor Muriel Bowser advanced her calls for D.C. statehood in January. The mayor said she&nbsp;wants a statehood bill on President Joe Biden\u2019s desk within his first 100 days in office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPropelled by <a title=\"www.washingtonpost.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/dc-politics\/dc-statehood-vote\/2020\/06\/25\/c2ac1670-b6ee-11ea-a8da-693df3d7674a_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_8\">the historic passage of a statehood bill<\/a> last summer in the Democratic-majority House, advocates have pointed to Democratic control of the White House and the Senate as the necessary building blocks for the bill to become law,\u201d the Post reported, adding, \u201cThe <a title=\"www.washingtonpost.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/elections\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">victories of Georgia Democratic Sens.-elect<\/a> Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock \u2014 who both support D.C. statehood \u2014 mean the Senate is split 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats, with Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris able to cast tie-breaking votes. Both Harris and President-elect Joe Biden support statehood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, statehood for D.C. remains a long shot so long as the filibuster is not eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo advance, statehood legislation would need to draw the support of 10 Republicans <strong>\u2014<\/strong> unless the Senate votes, as some are pushing for, to eliminate the filibuster. But many Democrats and Republicans oppose removing the filibuster, believing it encourages bipartisanship,\u201d the Post said.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AXIOS on HBO: Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi on Statehood (Clip) | HBO\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/45qUQmtjzl4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi says he fully expects legislation proposing Puerto Rican statehood by mid-March at the latest, and is anticipating \u201cconsiderable support.\u201d According to Pierluisi, Congress is \u201cmorally &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893474,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6801,4762,6800,5282,4005,6802],"class_list":["post-133459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-expects","tag-legislation","tag-puerto","tag-rico","tag-says","tag-statehood"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}