It is amazing to me that the political rights of 700,000 people might be conditioned on the business interests of one ma...
Thank you, Madam Chair.
the point is exactly as you say. There is a constitutional ceiling but there is no floor.
the inescapable imperative of American history is to give everybody equal rights, equal citizenship, and the right to pa...
Very quickly, Ms. Mayor, what is the name of the new state? Mayor Bowser. Washington, DC, Douglass Commonwealth.
Union and liberty, this was the cry of Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans in the 19th century. It is the cry of the peo...
This is the ridiculousness you get into when you try to draw a Federal city into a teacup.
There is no doubt that people tried to conscript constitutional arguments in the service of opposition to other people's...
The only way that we have admitted new states to the Union is through Congress.
I strongly support statehood for people--for the people of the District of Columbia.
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
This bill, H.R. 51, is the path.
I don't think there really is a good powerful rationale to object to H.R. 51.
Congress finds that the District of Columbia residents deserve full congressional voting rights and self-government, whi...
This is something that is owed to the residents of the District of Columbia by this Nation.
I am extremely proud that our committee is holding the first hearing on D.C. Statehood in the House of Representatives i...
I think it is three, actually.
Nobody has manipulated that more effectively than the pharmaceutical industry in the ways that you just described.
