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Washington - Any new initiative for the U.S. Senate to approve a referendum that includes statehood as a status option for Puerto Rico will clash with Senator Joe Manchin´s insistence -he controls that debate in the Senate- that consideration of admitting a new state must first require a national referendum in the United States.