the important point here is that I looks like the Framers understood that they couldn't put everything in the Constituti...
Congress has plenary authority over the District of Columbia.
We are upholding institutions of injustice.
It is a great indignity when great questions affecting this country we have nobody to call in the Senate to speak for us...
Now, we have to ask ourselves why that unilateral opposition and partisan opposition exists to the statehood and enfranc...
Full representation in D.C. is about more than full democracy in D.C.
It should be noted for the record that the territories don't pay Federal income taxes and the District is No. 1 per capi...
Eighty-six percent of the people advised the Council to approve our new Constitution.
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...
While we are small, population should not be a disqualification.
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...
