As I understand it, both Maryland and Virginia ceded land to Congress in 1791 and people continued to vote in Maryland o...
So, our goal here today is to collectively make it easier for the public servants of this country to take advantage of a...
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
Thank you, Madam Chair.
I view this as one of the most important civil rights and voting rights issues of our day.
Union and liberty, this was the cry of Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans in the 19th century. It is the cry of the peo...
Very quickly, Ms. Mayor, what is the name of the new state? Mayor Bowser. Washington, DC, Douglass Commonwealth.
It is amazing to me that the political rights of 700,000 people might be conditioned on the business interests of one ma...
the inescapable imperative of American history is to give everybody equal rights, equal citizenship, and the right to pa...
One of the greatest blots on our democracy is having 700,000 of our citizens unable to be fully represented.
by definition, monopoly industries have unlimited resources to sustain the monopoly with political power.
It is the responsibility for Congress, of all of us here today, not loan servicers, not the Department, to fix a program...
I urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to drop this quest for scapegoats, realize that Congress created the...
I am extremely proud that our committee is holding the first hearing on D.C. Statehood in the House of Representatives i...
Nobody has manipulated that more effectively than the pharmaceutical industry in the ways that you just described.
I don't think there really is a good powerful rationale to object to H.R. 51.
This is a historic day and I want to congratulate the District of Columbia.
It is up to us here, who are the ones at whom those efforts are being directed day in and day out to take action to dimi...
