I want to thank Congresswoman Holmes Norton for her amazing leadership over so many years.
You're comfortable with the fact that 700,000 residents of the District of Columbia will continue to be disenfranchised.
Take the word of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, who dismissed what he called the statehood fallacy.
But there's a national political logic for it, too, because the Senate has become the principal obstacle to social progr...
But it's already been established that Congress can modify the boundaries of the Federal District.
These are frivolous arguments. This is--you know, this is just flotsam and jetsam floating around.
I think I might be, Madam Chair, one of the only three or four Members of Congress that voted in 1993 in favor of stateh...
I want to thank Representative Holmes Norton for her tireless fight and, as a fellow Yale Law grad, what she said about ...
Take the word of John Dingell, a liberal titan, the longest-serving Member of Congress, who supported every single civil...
Take the word of the former Delegate from D.C., my colleague Eleanor Holmes Norton's predecessor, who had opposed stateh...
We've just heard from several of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle about how Democrats win elections in the ...
Why do you think we're getting all of these arguments that are doing everything that they can to run away from the conse...
I want to thank you for following the nonviolent and constitutional path to political equality in America, which is set ...
Which, actually, was the main political agenda of a great Republican Member of the House of Representatives named Abraha...
Under Article IV of the Constitution, we have the power to admit new states.
Like, learn about American history and you will understand that all of the fraudulent arguments being made against the a...
What about the percentage of guards that are not taking shots voluntarily?
I wanted to thank Congresswoman Joyce, someone I have such great respect for, the work that we do together on the Great ...