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Its not that we'd add 10 more seats to Congress. Under current law, only the Senate would be additive. We'd end up with 102 Senators. As to the HOuse of Representitives, its membership is capped. We ould not add 8 new reps for Puerto Rico. We'd have to redistrict and take reps away from some of the less populated states.
I don't think this would not really be a good thing for the conservative parts of the country. I think this owudl lead to fewer reps in the more conservative/Republican states and 8 more in the pocket of the Democrats. (This, or course, presumes that Puerto rico would basically fall into the Democrat camp. While this may not necessarily be so, given the political bent that I see from most PR politicians today ...)
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