Puerto Rico Candidates Head to Washington to Fight Debt Bill
- Candidates from both major parties oppose debt measure
- U.S. House may vote as soon as Thursday on Puerto Rico bill
This article is for subscribers only.
Puerto Rico’s next governor and Congressional representative plan to travel to Washington this week to speak out against a bill that would create a federal control board to oversee the island’s budgets. Their opposition may be too late.
Nominees from the island’s main political parties for governor and Resident Commissioner, the commonwealth’s non-voting member in the U.S. House, plan to urge Congressional members against passing the Puerto Rico bill, called Promesa, in its current form. The House may vote on the measure as soon as Thursday.