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unusual facts about Senate of Puerto Rico



Antonia Martínez

Police agents questioned by the Judiciary Committee of the Puerto Rico Senate concerning the investigation of the Cerro Maravilla murders case, revealed a cover-up by the Puerto Rico Police during the murder of Antonia Martínez Lagares, admitting that in order to cover up the case, a police officer who had nothing to do with the shooting was accused of it so he would be acquitted during the trial and put the matter to rest.

Diego Lizardi

In June, 2008, at the request of Senate of Puerto Rico President Kenneth McClintock, Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Migdalia Padilla and former Senate President Antonio Fas Alzamora, the Puerto Rico Legislature appropriated $25,000 for a statue of Diego Lizardi to be placed at the Puerto Rico Sports Museum in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.

Francisco Domenech

In 2005 he was appointed jointly by Senate of Puerto Rico President Kenneth McClintock and Puerto Rico House of Representatives Speaker José Aponte as Director of the Office of Legislative Services of Puerto Rico, the local legislative equivalent of the United States Congress' Congressional Research Service with a staff of about 120 and a budget of $10 million.

Jones–Shafroth Act

The Act created a legislative system comprising two houses: a Senate consisting of 19 members and a House of Representatives with 39 members.

Luis Sánchez Morales

President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him as member of the United States territory's "Executive Committee", appointive precursor of the elective Senate of Puerto Rico, in 1904, which he then chaired from 1912 to 1917, when the committee was abolished by the Jones Act and replaced by the Senate.

Oreste Ramos

Ramos was first elected to the Senate of Puerto Rico at the 1976 elections.

Pedro A. Rodríguez

Rodríguez decided to run for a seat in the Senate of Puerto Rico under the Popular Democratic Party (PPD) at the 2012 elections.

Presidential visits to Puerto Rico

Puertzed bronze statues commissioned by former Senate President Kenneth McClintock and placed in a linear park called the "Paseo de los Presidentes" on the south side of the Capitol of Puerto Rico by current Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz and House Speaker Jennifer Gonzalez.

Roberto Sánchez Vilella School of Public Administration

Its graduates include important and prominent figures of Puerto Rico, including Norma Burgos, a former Secretary of State of Puerto Rico and currently a member of the Senate of Puerto Rico.


see also

Rafael Martinez

Rafael Martínez Nadal (1877–1941), third president of the Senate of Puerto Rico