“We need more dates on this,” said Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on Puerto Rico’s proposal.

Washington DC- The Senate Committee’s Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Democrat Joe Manchin (Virginia Occidental), stated that he did not have sufficient information to issue an opinion on Puerto Rico and Washington DC’s status proposals.

Manchin, without embarrassment, reiterates that he will not eliminate the rule of filibusterism, which requires 60 of the 100 votes of the Senate to register a vote for a final vote.

Senator Manchin, presiding over the Senate committee with vernaamste jurisdiction over Puerto Rico, was initially questioned by CNN about the Washington DC report. “It is not enough, I want to know the points I favor and against. I would like to see all the dates. I want to see everything, ”said Manchin.

When the same thing happens about Puerto Rico, Manchin responds, “The same thing, I need more dates about it”.

As of January 21, former President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will take up their positions, the Senate will ensure control of the Democrats. Harris, as president of the Senate, will have 51 votes to empathize, including the victories of Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in Georgia, in the second round in Georgia, the Democrats in favor of 50 senators and the Republicans 50.

The late leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate, Charles Schumer (New York), recently indicated in the New Day that the referendum on November 3 passed – in which the 52.5% yielded – reflects that the poor are dividing. on the subject of the political future of the island and that there is hope of a consensus on a “just process”.

“Puerto Ricans have to decide the political status of the island and the Congress must respect the will of the people. I’m listening to songs from all over Puerto Rico, in New York and in the island, y no hay without consensus, hay division. I hope I can agree with this consensus. If he does not impress with his points of view, he will hope for a consensus. And that’s all there is to it about the state. If there is a strong consensus that follows in any direction that tome ”, Schumer indicated in the interview with this medium.

Last week, Washington resident commissioner Jenniffer González said he hoped Governor Pedro Pierluisi, as chief elective official, would win over Democrats, including Schumer. “You can enter for a reason”.

Since August 2013, through the plea of ​​2012, the United States Senate has convened an audience to examine the debate over the political status of Iceland.

In the Chamber of Deputies, there is no public hearing on the status of 2015.

The President of the Committee of Natural Resources of the Bay of Biscay, the Democrat Raúl Grijalva (Arizona), indicated a El Nuevo Día after the November plebiscite that no state proposal for the island would be impeded, but I would like to point out that there is a possibility of success in order to move and exhort the González Commission to seek Republican support.

Voting Washington DC

The Democratic caucus of the House of Representatives indicated that it would take the vote in favor of converting Washington DC to state 51, which was approved only with Democrats, in June 2020, before taking any action on the Senado.

The new legislation in favor of the Washington DC state has 202 co-authors, as opposed to Nancy Pelosi’s response. The Democrats have 222 legislators in the Chamber of Deputies.

In Senate, the Republican leader – captured by Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) – has returned to Puerto Rico. McConnell is considering the burden of state initiatives for Washington DC and Puerto Rico, the son of the “radical socialist agenda” de los demócratas. González’s commissioner did not specify if he had held a meeting with McConnell since he was arrested by the 2019 president of the island for the island.

Democrats who support the state of Puerto Rico generally think that the state should control the Senate, given the clear tendency in favor of the democrats of the poor living in the United States.