Congress cannot force retrocession on Maryland. So it is impractical.
That is why we want to become the 51st state in the United States.
We don't believe in American democracy in collective guilt. We don't believe in mass punishment.
The District is in the best financial state it has been in its history.
Taxation without representation is more than just a catchy hashtag or a bumper sticker slogan.
Eighty-six percent of the people advised the Council to approve our new Constitution.
It should be noted for the record that the territories don't pay Federal income taxes and the District is No. 1 per capi...
Full representation in D.C. is about more than full democracy in D.C.
Now, we have to ask ourselves why that unilateral opposition and partisan opposition exists to the statehood and enfranc...
It is a great indignity when great questions affecting this country we have nobody to call in the Senate to speak for us...
We are upholding institutions of injustice.
Congress has plenary authority over the District of Columbia.
the important point here is that I looks like the Framers understood that they couldn't put everything in the Constituti...
We have been very committed in our city to transparency in government and, in fact, have been very proud to advance some...
the way that you and all of my residents can ask me about how we're driving down crime is to make sure that we have comp...
As Mayor of the District of Columbia, I swear an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Our very existence could be wiped away by the whim of the Congress.
