Congressional Digest

Congressional Digest May 1998 No. 5 Vol. 77
Honorable Gerald B.H. Solomon

Puerto Rico Political Status

Statehood, Commonwealth, or Independence

Honorable Gerald B.H. Solomon

United States Representative, New York, Republican

Representative Solomon, of the Twenty-Second District of New York, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978. He was Queensbury Town Supervisor and Warren County Legislator from 1968 to 1972 and a member of the New York Assembly from 1973 to 1978. He Chairs the House Rules Committee. The following statement is from the House floor debate of March 4, 1998, on H.R. 856, the United States_Puerto Rico Political Status Act.In April of 1775, hundreds of brave men stormed the bridges of Lexington and Concord, setting in motion a revolutionary struggle for liberty that culminated in my…

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