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The American Maritime Partnership , of which the SIU is partner, has issued the following news release on June 8. The American Maritime Partnership , the voice of the domestic maritime industry, today released a statement regarding Rep. Gary Palmer's proposed measure to exempt Puerto Rico from the Jones Act - which requires waterborne cargo between two points in the United States to be transported on vessels that are American built, owned, and crewed. The Jones Act is critical to U.S. national, homeland, and economic security, and ensures reliable shipment of vital goods between Puerto Rico and the U.S. Mainland.
Hillary Clinton overwhelmed Bernie Sanders in Puerto Rico's Democratic presidential primary on Sunday, putting her within striking distance of capturing her party's nomination. After a blowout victory Saturday in the U.S. Virgin Islands and a decisive win in the U.S. territory, Clinton is now less than 30 delegates short of the 2,383 needed to win the nomination, according to an Associated Press count.
Puerto Rico resident Hector Alvarez casts his ballot during the U.S. territory's Democratic primary election at the Luis Llorens Torres Elementary School in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sunday June 5, 2016. Puerto Ricans frustrated by island's economic crisis are voting in the U.S. territory's Democratic presidential primary, as front-runner Hillary Clinton draws closer to securing the number of delegates needed to win her party's nomination.
Shortly after the distribution of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine began writing the series of "American Crisis" essays that inspired Americans to maintain their arduous rebellion against colonialism. "We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in," argued Paine in a series of pamphlets that concluded: "Our citizenship in the United States is our national character.