Rep. Raúl Labrador, a Republican from Idaho, is one of three voting members of Congress to be born in Puerto Rico. Labrador was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, while Democrat José Serrano was born in Mayagüez and Democrat Nydia Velázquez was born in Yabucoa. Since Labrador is the only Republican in Congress with birth ties to Puerto Rico, his views about the latest statehood bill presented by Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi (D), a non-voting member of Congress, matter. Getting Labrador to offer his full support of H.R. 2000 would make a big difference in Pierluisi’s push to make Puerto Rico the 51st state of the Union.
This week, Labrador, who was that supportive of last year’s status plebiscite on the island, shared his thoughts about Pierluisi’s bill, said he would vote YAY to H.R. 2000, but he won’t be that involved in getting fellow Republicans to vote YAY with him.
This is what Labrador told Puerto Rico’s El Nuevo Día:
“I have a lot of things to do. But if the bill gets to the floor, I would vote in favor of it,” Labrador said in Spanish. According the END, Labrador thought that Pierluisi’s bill was a “good idea.”
Pierluisi’s bill has 34 co-sponsors, including Pierluisi. A handful of those co-sponsors are Republicans. Besides Pierluisi, Serrano is the only other official of Puerto Rican descent who is a co-sponsor of the bill. Here is the full list of co-sponsors:
- House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland
- Republican Rep. Don Young of Alaska (yes, the “wetback” guy)
- Democratic Rep. José Serrano of New York
- Republican Rep. Peter King of New York
- Democratic Rep. George Miller of California
- Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida
- Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida
- Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel of New York
- Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman of California
- Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio
- Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel of New York
- Eni Faleomavaega, the non-voting Delegate to the United States House of Representatives from American Samoa
- Eleanor Holmes Norton, the non-voting Delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the District of Columbia
- Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown of Florida
- Republican Rep. John Mica of Florida
- Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida
- Democratic Rep. Chaka Fattah of Pennsylvania
- Democratic Rep. Ron Kind of Wisconsin
- Democratic Rep. Joseph Crowley of New York
- Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida
- Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva of Arizona
- Madeleine Bordallo, the non-voting Delegate to the United States House of Representatives from Guam
- Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota
- Democratic Rep. Kathy Castor of Florida
- Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge of Ohio
- Republican Rep. Aaron Schock of Illinois
- Gregorio Sablan, the non-voting Delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
- Democratic Rep. Ted Deutch of Florida
- Democratic Rep. Jared Polis of Colorado
- Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida
- Democratic Rep. Federica Wilson of Florida
- Democratic Rep. Joe Garcia of Florida
- Democratic Rep. Carol Shea-Porter of New Hampshire
If passed, H.R. 2000 would authorize Congress and the White House to establish an admission process for Puerto Rico as the 51st state, if a majority of Puerto Rican voters choose statehood. Pierluisi said the following about Labrador, “Although Labrador has not joined the bill so far, I will not assume that he wouldn’t do so in the future.” Labrador, because he is a Republican, is seen as key representative if he becomes more vocal in his support. The same goes for Illinois Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D), who right now believes the bill is slanted towards a statehood option.
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