I am very pleased today to be reintroducing my legislation entitled Protecting Americans with Preexisting Conditions to ...
one of the things that the American Rescue Plan did was it built, as we know, on the Affordable Care Act in significant ...
I want to thank Congresswoman Holmes Norton for her amazing leadership over so many years.
Eleanor Holmes Norton has put forward is that solution: statehood for the District of Columbia.
What changed is the population of the District changed from White to Black.
the disenfranchisement of Washingtonians is one of the most glaring remaining civil rights issues of our time.
I am a very proud sponsor of the LIFT America Act. This is a terrific bill, represents a lot of collaboration by many Me...
We know there's challenges. There is growing demand. There is the need for reliability.
I am thrilled that we have included in the LIFT America Act the 21st Century Power Grid Act.
We know we have to lift up the water infrastructure across the country, the electric grid, et cetera.
All of that shows that we have got to adapt our grid to 21st century requirements.
You're comfortable with the fact that 700,000 residents of the District of Columbia will continue to be disenfranchised.
Under Article IV of the Constitution, we have the power to admit new states.
Why do you think we're getting all of these arguments that are doing everything that they can to run away from the conse...
We've just heard from several of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle about how Democrats win elections in the ...
Take the word of the former Delegate from D.C., my colleague Eleanor Holmes Norton's predecessor, who had opposed stateh...
But there's a national political logic for it, too, because the Senate has become the principal obstacle to social progr...
Take the word of John Dingell, a liberal titan, the longest-serving Member of Congress, who supported every single civil...
