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House Passes Bill That Could Pave the Way for Puerto Rican Statehood

House Passes Bill That Could Pave the Way for Puerto Rican Statehood

Representative Steny H. Hoyer, Democrat of Maryland and the majority leader, and Representative Raúl Grijalva of Arizona, the chairman of the Natural Resources Committee, helped broker the agreement among Puerto Rican officials, lawmakers who support statehood for the island and lawmakers who have argued that the United States should back …

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