A list of 130 organizations endorsing H.R. 51.
Of course, I support voting rights. But let us be clear. H.R. 51, even if signed into law, could not turn Washington, DC...
First, I want to correct for the record, the Federal Government provides 23 percent of the District's revenue.
The fact is denying American citizens a vote in this body that taxes them goes against the very founding premise of this...
Denying statehood would be unfair no matter who was affected.
The lack of statehood deprives us of more than just full representation in this Congress. It has practical and dire cons...
That is all we ask, that Congress give us what it has given the citizens of 37 other states--full citizenship, statehood...
It is about the Constitution. If you want to change it, there is a remedy, and it requires amending the Constitution of ...
The voting rights of American citizens and their representatives Congress have never been and never will be contingent o...
To continue to deny statehood to 702,000 residents of Washington, DC, is a failure of the Members of this body to uphold...
Statehood is the only way to give our citizens locally elected representatives, to enact purely local laws that will not...
There should be no taxation without representation.
Statehood means the United States citizens of the District of Columbia will have the same rights and privileges enjoyed ...
Many opponents have argued that the District is not capable of governing itself in a fiscally responsible manner.
But this is unpopular with the citizens in both the District and Maryland.
There is nothing in the Constitution that bars the Nation's capital from becoming a state.
we are ready.
those critiques simply don't hold water.
