Utah) and John McCain (R., Ariz.) have introduced legislation to permanently exempt Puerto Rico from the Jones Act. This is a common-sense decision on the merits that will help the island recover ...

Noticeably, Harris' proposal does not include a repeal of the Jones Act, which for decades has increased energy costs and ...

Because it sailed from Texas, however, the Jones Act banned it from entering one of Puerto Rico’s ports. Under the rules of the Jones Act, the president possesses emergency powers to waive the ...

Steve Forbes seconds Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont’s call to rethink the Jones Act, a misbegotten law passed over a century ...

A 100-year-old law that artificially inflates the price of shipping freight by water in the United States is widely ...

Unless the act is amended, we will join other states and territories cut off from affordable domestic liquefied natural gas.

It’s stuck in the 1940’s thanks to the Jones Act. Meanwhile, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and other U.S. territories bear extravagant costs on their economies, including ag. Hawaiian cattle ...

On March 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Jones-Shafroth Act, granting Puerto Rico status as a United States territory and granting all of its residents US citizenship. The Bill ...