Norma Burgos

In 1995, Governor Rosselló appointed Burgos to serve as Secretary of State.[1] As Secretary of State, Burgos also served as President of several Special Commissions, such as: the Commission for the Study of a Unicameral Legislature, the Commission for the Study of the Naturopathy Profession, the Accident Prevention and Safety Committee, the Centennial Commission of Puerto Rican Democracy USA-PR, and the Special Commission on the Island of Vieques.

During this time, Burgos was also elected unanimously as vice-president of the party and chaired its Platform Committee in 1996. In 1999, Burgos resigned to her position as Secretary of State to campaign for Senator.

Burgos was elected to the Senate of Puerto Rico in the 2000 general elections and reelected in 2004. In both occasions, she was the candidate with most votes among all candidates from the two principal/majority parties in Puerto Rico, and the one with most votes among her fellow party candidates.[2][3] In 2005, she was appointed by Senate President Kenneth McClintock as chair of the Senate Committee on Public Welfare and the Joint Commission on Health Rights, as well as member of several other committees.

At the PNP primaries in 2008, Burgos was the candidate with most votes for the Senate positions.[4] In the 2008 elections she was again re-elected to a third term. She was then appointed by current Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz as Chairwoman of the Senate Commission for Economic Development and Planning and the Joint Commission on Public Private Partnerships. She is also Vice Chairwoman of the Urban and Infrastructure Committee, and member of the Committees on Finance, Trade and Cooperatives, Women Affairs, Banking, Consumer Affairs and Public Corporations. In addition, she has served on the Joint Commission on Fiscal and Management Audit of Public Funds and the Special Committee on Government Reform of the Senate of Puerto Rico.

In 2008, she served as a member of Puerto Rico's 53-delegate delegation to the Democratic National Convention held in Denver, elected on then-Senator Barack Obama's slate. Burgos was appointed together with Hernandez Mayoral to represent Puerto Rico at the Democratic Platform Committee. She subsequently campaigned for Obama's presidential campaign in Orlando, Florida in a historic campaign swing that brought together pro-statehood Democrats such as her Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi.

Burgos announced her intent to run for the mayoralty of the city of Caguas. Citing the general decay of the city following the death of former mayor William Miranda Marin and during the subsequent term of William Miranda Torres. She has cited that the city currently has a growing budgetary deficit and that the city currently ignores the population of the rural parts of the city. She has promised to bring a "Dynamic Toll Lane" and extension of the "Tren Urbano" to connect Caguas with the rest of the Metropolitan Area. She lost the election.

In 2016 she was appointed as Alternate Electoral Commissioner of the New Progressive Party in the State Elections Commission of Puerto Rico and after three months was promoted to Electoral Commissioner. Under her leadership and a great team of work, it was possible to prevail in 17 cases brought to the Courts. Under her tutelage, her party won the 2016 General Elections and the Statehood option in the 2017 Plebiscite.