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I'm more upset that the Consumerist doesn't know that Puerto Rico has no Representatives in the House. (Or Senators, or anything really. Of course, they proba

I'm more upset that the Consumerist doesn't know that Puerto Rico has no Representatives in the House. (Or Senators, or anything really. Of course, they probably could if they wanted to but they keep voting to retain their commonwealth status.)

telemachos 16y ago
It's a little weirder than literally no representation. Puerto Rico, like the District of Columbia, has a non-voting representative to Congress. (This is the source of the popular "Taxation without representation" bumper stickers in DC.) Citations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111th_United_States_Congress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111th_United_States_Congress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Ricos_At-large_congressional_district http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Ricos_At-large_congressi...