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: JURIST - The Paper ChaseUS House approves Puerto Rico status referendum bill
By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.
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[JURIST] The US House of Representatives voted 223-169 Thursday to approve legislation calling for a referendum on the status of Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rico Democracy Act was introduced by Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi (D), Puerto Rico's nonvoting delegate to the House, and had 181 co-sponsors, including nearly 60 Republicans. The bill would establish a two-step referendum, the first of which would ask voters in Puerto Rico whether they wanted to change the status of the island. If the read more
Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on April 30, 2010 (boomark / email).
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