He voted against the Puerto Rico Status Act on the floor last week, calling for "letting a full and robust legislative process take place."
One of the bill’s main negotiators, Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y., the first Puerto Rican woman elected to Congress, is confident about more congressional hearings on Puerto Rico's territorial status in the new year.
That’s intentional, said Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González-Colón, a Republican nonvoting member of Congress representing Puerto Rico who favors statehood and helped negotiate the Puerto Rico Status Act.
What’s next for Puerto Rico’s territorial status?
Excluding Puerto Rico’s territorial status also gives Wicker and others pause.