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How is the territorty of Puerto Rico represented in congress?
Puerto Rico is represented by one elected delegate (Resident Commissioner) in the House of Representatives. This delegate has a vote in committees but at the present time the delegate does not have a vote in the committee of the whole (when the House takes a vote to pass a bill). Even when the delegates had the vote in the Committee of the whole, their vote could not be the deciding vote therefore the vote was ceremonial and meaningless. The delegate can introduce legislation and lobby and serves a 4 year term.
Does Puerto Rico have us representatives?
Puerto Rico has one non-voting representative to the house
Does Puerto Rico have congressmen?
Puerto Rico doesnt have voting representatives in the house like the states. Puerto Rico has a Resident Comissioner who is a non-voting representative in the house for puerto ricans which is Pedro Pierluisi
Do the American citizens in Puerto Rico have full voting rights?
True.
What are blue laws in Puerto Rico?
No drinking alchohol during voting
Who is Puerto Rico's nonvoting delegate to the US House of Representatives?
Pedro Pierluisi since 2009.
Is there any representatives in Guam?
Yes, each island has an elected but non-voting representative in the US House of Representatives. Puerto Rico has a "resident commissioner" and Guam has a "delegate." Both can vote in committee but not on the House floor.
Do Puerto Rican's have representation in the US Congress?
Yes, Puerto Rico has a single nonvoting Resident Commissioner in the US Congress.
What are Puerto Rico's religions?
Others are well represented but the vast majority are Catholic.
Who has power over Puerto Rico?
Puerto Rico is a United States territory so Barack Obama would be the head of their government and Alejandro García Padilla is Governor of the territory.
What age do you have to be to vote in the Dominican Republic?
The legal voting age in Puerto Rico is 18
Forms of government in Puerto Rico?
Puerto Rico has a republican form of government and is quite similar to the model used by most of the 50 US States including a bicameral Legislature, an Independent Judiciary and a strong Executive. Because it is a territory it is represented in the US Congress by a single Resident Commissioner who is elected for a four year term as a nonvoting delegate in the US House of Representatives.
