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Strengthening installation resilience to hazards associated with the effects of climate change ensures that the DOD can successfully execute critical missions.

Yes, I would support a briefing by the Department to the congressional defense committees on the overall prioritization of forces in the annual GFMAP.

I absolutely support primary and secondary, yes, ma'am.

The healthy--the health, welfare, and safety of our force is of utmost important to me.

As I stated then, this is a leadership issue--and we will lead.

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 independence of our Nation.

Its intent was to expand democracy to D.C. residents, and now it is being held up as a barrier.

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 Congress.

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 have no representation.

We will not quit until we achieve full democracy, and our two Senators are seated here with you.

D.C. pays more Federal taxes per capital--and I will repeat that one. The residents I represent pay more taxes per capita than any State, and pay more Federal taxes, right now, than 21 States.

The fact that more than half a million Americans live in the District of Columbia and are denied a single voting representative in Congress is clear an historic wrong and justice demands that it be addressed.

I am asking this U.S. Senate usher in a new age of fairness and equality for D.C. residents.

Congress does have a choice. It can continue to exclude D.C. residents from the democratic process, forcing them to watch from the sidelines as Congress votes on Federal and D.C. laws and to treat them, in the words of Frederick Douglass…

It is absolutely unfair, Mr. Chairman, and you laid it out perfectly.