guaranteed the extension of the 50 State Quarters program to include the minting of six additional quarters to honor the District of Columbia and the five United States territories, including Serrano's native Puerto Rico. Serrano advocated for Puerto Ricans under FBI prosecution. In May 2000, he brokered an agreement with then-FBI Director Louis Freeh, then-Puerto Rican Independence Party Electoral Commissioner Manuel Rodríguez Orellana and then-Puerto Rico Senate Federal Affairs Committee chairman (and future Puerto Rico Senate President and Secretary of State) Kenneth McClintock that resulted in the release of nearly 100,000 pages of previously secret FBI files on Puerto Rican political activists. Serrano was a critic of the Bush administration's approach to handling President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. In 2005, while the Venezuelan President was in New York City speaking before the United Nations, the congressman invited him to his district to speak to his constituency. After Chávez' death, Serrano published condolences via Twitter, describing him as a leader who "understood the needs of the poor" and was "committed to empowering the powerless". Serrano's tweet prompted a response from the Republican National Committee, which asserted that it was "simply insulting that a Democrat Congressman would praise the authoritarian ruler Hugo Chávez". Serrano criticized Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro. In March 2019, he and 29 other Democratic lawmakers wrote a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that read in part, "Since the election of far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro as president, we have been particularly alarmed by the threat Bolsonaro’s agenda poses to the LGBTQ+ community and other minority communities, women, labor activists, and political dissidents in Brazil". In March 2019, Serrano announced that he would not seek re-election in 2020 because he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Committee assignments Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government (Ranking Member) Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Caucus memberships Congressional Hispanic Caucus Congressional Progressive Caucus. International Conservation Caucus Congressional Arts Caucus Afterschool Caucuses United States Congressional International Conservation Caucus Party leadership Senior Whip Personal life Serrano's son, José M. Serrano, is a member of the New York State Senate. In addition to José, Serrano has four other children. In March 2019, Serrano announced that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and would not seek re-election in 2020. See also List of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States Congress