“Puerto Rico doesn’t have a senator, so we’ve always treated it as a place we care about a lot,” Rubio said. About 80,000 Puerto Rico residents moved to the mainland United States last year, part of an exodus driven by the island’s devastated economy. In Congress, Puerto Rico is represented by Jenniffer González-Colón, a nonvoting member who caucuses with Republicans. “It is common knowledge among people in Puerto Rico that the water and the electricity is never certain. People who don’t think about Puerto Rico in D.C. start to think about it.”

Source: Washington Post September 22, 2017 12:46 UTC