'Do something!' Rep. Stacey Plaskett furious as she's told she can't vote for speaker

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8. Part's that she must not know the Constitution.

Or she just wanted to make a point, does know but wants the usual procedure for being made a state ignored. PR has voted and the referendum has failed--lack of turnout or statehood was voted down.



As it is, I assume that if all 5 territories were made states a lot of people would have serious issues with them each having 1 Representative and 2 Senators. It would make the disproportionate representation by population number by states like Colorado seem downright great.

We could lump them all together or maybe unite Samoa, Marianas and Guam with HI, PR and the VI with, I don't know, FL or make them their own state. But our democracy has a process and they can follow it. (They could also just vote for independence and get rid of their affiliation with the structurally racist patriarchal US entirely.)