Resident-commissioner
noun
1.
a representative from a dependency, as Guam or Puerto Rico, who is entitled to speak, but not to vote, in the U.S. House of Representatives.
resident commissioner
noun
1.
the representative of Puerto Rico in the US House of Representatives. He or she may speak but has no vote
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