"Rep. Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon, the U.S. territory's nonvoting member of Congress, went to the House floor Wednesday along with a proposed delegation of two senators and five representatives to demand that Congress recognize Puerto Rico as a state."
NO!
(that is all...)
Actually, there's a little more:
P.R. should have been granted independence after the attack on Congress (wasn't that during the Truman administration?).
We should have dumped them back then.