President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status

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The President’s Task Force on Puerto Rico’s Status was a body of advisors created in 2000 to provide options for Puerto Rico’s future political status and relationship with the United States. The Task Force listened to and considered the views of individuals, elected officials, and other representatives of the people of Puerto Rico in an effort to ensure that views and positions were objectively considered regardless of affiliation or ideology.

It published its first report in December 2005, and then a second report in 2007. The 2007 Report built on the 2005 Report and carried out "the Task Force’s ongoing mandate to report, no less than every two years, on progress made in the determination of Puerto Rico’s ultimate status".^[1] The latest report by the Task Force on Puerto Rico’s Status, whose members were appointed by President Barack Obama, was issued on March 16, 2011.^[2] The entity seems not to have reconvened since then.^[3]