It is a glaring contradiction of our democracy that residents of the Nation's Capital... do not have a vote or a voice in this chamber.
Absolutely no, Senator. We know, as we have already discussed, that ending 'taxation without representation' was a principle that led to the...
the COVID restrictions were for everybody, and I do not have to tell you that we faced a 100-year pandemic.
We know the time to correct that wrong is now.
I appeal to this Senate to end the ongoing systemic injustice faced by the growing population in D.C. and vote for statehood in the 117th Co...
Its intent was to expand democracy to D.C. residents, and now it is being held up as a barrier.
I am asking this U.S. Senate usher in a new age of fairness and equality for D.C. residents.
We will not quit until we achieve full democracy, and our two Senators are seated here with you.
Your inaction could doom yet another generation of Washingtonians to being locked out of their constitutional power and human rights.
It is absolutely unfair, Mr. Chairman, and you laid it out perfectly.
We saw early on in the pandemic that our African Americans residents were not only being affected with COVID-19 but dying from COVID-19 in v...
I condemn both equally.
Senators, we ask you to right the wrong that occurred some 220 years ago when the residents of the District of Columbia were stripped of the...
Senator Carper, I particularly thank you for sponsoring our D.C. statehood bill and for being a champion for D.C. in the Senate, where we ha...
These are the kinds of positive steps that President Biden and the Democrats in Congress have enabled to benefit Americans directly and imme...
The fact that more than half a million Americans live in the District of Columbia and are denied a single voting representative in Congress ...
This hearing is of historic significance, because it is only the second Senate hearing on our D.C. statehood bill in the nation's history.
Again, Chairman Peters and Senator Carper, thank you for your leadership on this bill.
