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Have representation in congress they don't have a vote and there's not a lot of interest to tackle this in washington, d.c. one exception is there have been millions of puerto ricans have come to the united states and thousands of them have settled in florida. and puerto ricans can play a swing vote there. if you are running for president you have to pay attention to this issue because puerto ricans carry important political sway in the same way we have seen with cuban americans in past elections in miami. i think that's going to race attention and the profile of this issue over the next year....

The law so that puerto rico can restructure their deads in the same way that cities in the united states can. until that happens you have 16 entities in puerto rico that have issued debt and there is no formal way to restructure that debt if puerto rico can't pay it. >> and puerto ricans and politicians have lobbied for equal stat us under u.s. law. what about the political dimension to all. this if residents here can't vote does that play into this all? >> that is an important dimension here. because puerto rico doesn't have representation in congress they don't have a vote. there hasn't been...