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I think the goal should be to combine the territories with other states.  In the mean time I'd be fine with them having full-up voting rights in the House, but definately not in the Senate. 


One from the article: "American Samoa has fewer than 60,000 people, the Virgin Islands 109,000. Guam has about 171,000."  I specifically would not want such small groups of people having equal sway in the Senate as say California or Texas, but I wouldn't mind them having population weighted representation in the House.  If they were states you'd have to give them both.


Keeping them out of the Senate avoids the population problems, and rolling them into another state won't upset the balance of power between republicans and democrats in any substantive way.  (One reason DC has had such a hard time becoming a state is because its always hard-core democrat.  Republican states won't ratify a state that constantly votes against them.  I would imagine the opposite scenerio would be true too, thats not a ding on republicans.)


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