Millions of Water Bottles Left on Puerto Rico Runway for 1 Year
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PR is not a state, and it has no Senators or Congresscritters to represent it. It is what in other countries is called a 'dependency'. And deliberately kept that way for over a century.
As I understand it (very limited), the position's voting rights/opportunities are severely constrained and, in most or all significant matters, non-existent.
[Addendum: Depending upon committee memberships, arguably, being able to vote in/on committee matters -- particularly, to move legislation out of committee -- may be a significant power in particular circumstances. As well perhaps, again in particular circumstances, the ability to introduce legislation. Occasionally, the latter exerts significant political influence regardless of the success or failure to pass of said legislation.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_members_of_the_United_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenniffer_Gonz%C3%A1lez
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are representatives of their territory in the House of Representatives, but who do not have a right to vote on proposed legislation in the full House but are nevertheless able to participate in certain other House functions. Non-voting members may vote in a House committee of which they are a member and introduce legislation.
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Separately, note also:
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Similar to delegates are resident commissioners, who represented the large areas acquired during the Spanish–American War, and for much of the 20th century were considered colonies, not territories and unlike the previously acquired areas which would become the contiguous U.S. or Alaska and Hawaii, did not have residents with the rights of, or to U.S. citizenship.[13] Unlike incorporated territories, they have the right to secede from the Union, and in the case of the Philippines, they have.
It's obvious that it's a failure of logistics, but missing 17 semi truck loads doesn't seem insane to me.
http://uk.businessinsider.com/puerto-rico-water-bottle-fema-...