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Your inaction could doom yet another generation of Washingtonians to being locked out of their constitutional power and human rights.

Again, Chairman Peters and Senator Carper, thank you for your leadership on this bill.

This hearing is of historic significance, because it is only the second Senate hearing on our D.C. statehood bill in the nation's history.

We saw early on in the pandemic that our African Americans residents were not only being affected with COVID-19 but dying from COVID-19 in vastly greater numbers than their white counterparts.

I condemn both equally.

It was a great honor and a privilege to serve under President Obama and help keep Americans safe and it’s an equal privilege now to serve under President Biden.

These are the kinds of positive steps that President Biden and the Democrats in Congress have enabled to benefit Americans directly and immediately.

What President Biden wants to do and it’s vitally important and he’s proposed this through his American Families Plan, is to extend the same benefit, the same $3,600 a year for every child under 6, the same $3,000 for every child age 6 to…

The expectation is that this action, this child tax credit will help us cut child poverty in this country in half this year, which is huge.

This is cash money in people`s bank accounts that they can plan for and spend against. And it`s vitally important because our children are the most vulnerable in our society. They need this support.

Senators, we ask you to right the wrong that occurred some 220 years ago when the residents of the District of Columbia were stripped of their full congressional representation, and we ask you to do it now.

The longest in our history.

We are very focused on domestic violent extremism. It is the greatest threat -- terrorist-related threat that we face in our homeland.

The United States would be extremely well served by ratifying the Law of the Sea Treaty.

There are no guarantees in any of this.

China is, in fact, our pacing challenge, and it is my priority focus.

I absolutely agree with you.

What will happen to women and girls? And not only that, but many, many others, and they are probably going to be at risk.