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Non-voting members of the United States House of Representatives (called either delegates or resident commissioner, in the case of Puerto Rico) are representatives of their territory in the House of Representatives, who do not have a right to vote on legislation in the full House but nevertheless have floor privileges and are able to participate in certain other House functions.
In November 2024, in an opinion piece in The Hill, he announced that for the first time since 2000, Puerto Rican voters had chosen an opponent of Puerto Rican statehood as their delegate to the United States House of Representatives. [7]
The resident commissioner of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Comisionado Residente de Puerto Rico) is a non-voting member of the United States House of Representatives elected by the voters of the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico every four years, [1] the only member of the House of Representatives who serves a four-year term.
Pablo Hernández Rivera, the newly elected resident commissioner of Puerto Rico, has pledged to prioritize economic development and equal treatment in federal programs over the sterile status ...
The nationalists, identified as Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andres Figueroa Cordero, and Irvin Flores Rodríguez, unfurled a Puerto Rican flag and began shooting at Representatives in the 83rd Congress, who were debating an immigration bill. Five Representatives were wounded, one seriously, but all recovered.
Puerto Rico's Sole Representative in Congress Speaks Out. This is the colonial catch-22: Puerto Rico remains a colony because it has no leverage in Congress, and it has no leverage in Congress ...
Puerto Rican: Coalitionist: Puerto Rico: Dec 26, 1939: Jan 3, 1945: Lost re-election Jesús T. Piñero (1897–1952) Puerto Rican: Popular Democratic: Puerto Rico: Jan 3, 1945: Sep 2, 1946: Resigned to accept appointment as Governor of Puerto Rico: Antonio Fernós-Isern (1895–1974) Puerto Rican: Popular Democratic: Puerto Rico: Sep 11, 1946 ...
On November 8, 2016, González was elected Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, with 48.77% of the vote, over her main opponent, the late Héctor Ferrer of the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico, [16] becoming the first woman and youngest person to represent Puerto Rico in the U.S. Congress since the creation of the resident commissioner ...