What’s in Congress’s New Funding Bill?
The appropriations bill passed by the House of Representatives today includes a package of six smaller bills totaling about $460 billion. The bills in the… Read More »What’s in Congress’s New Funding Bill?
The appropriations bill passed by the House of Representatives today includes a package of six smaller bills totaling about $460 billion. The bills in the… Read More »What’s in Congress’s New Funding Bill?
At a U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee hearing last week, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack stated that Puerto Rico’s integration in the… Read More »USDA Secretary: NAP to SNAP Transition “in the foreseeable future”
The Marshallese Educational Initiative gathered in Springdale, Arkansas, on March 1, 2024, the 70th anniversary of the detonation of Castle Bravo. This nuclear test, which… Read More »Nuclear Remembrance Day
Ever since the Puerto Rico Status Act (PRSA) was introduced in Congress, people have been trying to figure out what Free Association is. The PRSA,… Read More »Nuclear Legacy Week and the Freely Associated States
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), who serves as Chairman of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party,… Read More »Compacts of Free Association: Will the U.S. Fund Them?
As Congress considers the prospect of expanding the federal nutrition assistance program to Puerto Rico, talk has turned to how much Puerto Rico contributes to… Read More »Puerto Rico, States and the U.S. Treasury – Who Wins?
Residents of Puerto Rico cannot vote in presidential elections, but they do vote in presidential primaries. April 2024 brings both the Democratic and Republican primaries… Read More »Presidential Primaries in Puerto Rico
On February 12, the Puerto Rico Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights produced its first of what it plans will be several… Read More »The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Releases Initial Review of Puerto Rico
A city council member in Connecticut, Amilcar Hernandez, told a journalist last year, “I think that the people of Puerto Rico should have access to… Read More »Puerto Rico Decides. Must Congress First Define?