Absolutely no, Senator. We know, as we have already discussed, that ending 'taxation without representation' was a princ...
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 state...
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 ...
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 dyin...
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 ...
The fact that more than half a million Americans live in the District of Columbia and are denied a single voting represe...
D.C. pays more Federal taxes per capital--and I will repeat that one. The residents I represent pay more taxes per capit...
Senator Carper, I particularly thank you for sponsoring our D.C. statehood bill and for being a champion for D.C. in the...
This hearing is of historic significance, because it is only the second Senate hearing on our D.C. statehood bill in the...
Again, Chairman Peters and Senator Carper, thank you for your leadership on this bill.
Congress does have a choice. It can continue to exclude D.C. residents from the democratic process, forcing them to watc...
