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The Constitution does not distinguish between the seat of the Federal Government and the district where the government is seated, meaning the Constitution would, in fact, need to be changed.

I am correcting for the record.

We don't want to do tit-for-tat. We want you to have exactly what the rules allow.

We are trying to do regular order here. We are trying to be fair.

The minority's request will be honored--will be considered and honored.

The District clause does give Congress, as the gentleman said, plenary authority--that is all the authority--over the District.

It is a great indignity when great questions affecting this country we have nobody to call in the Senate to speak for us.

We would have the electoral college votes that our population requires.

As Mayor of the District of Columbia, I swear an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Our very existence could be wiped away by the whim of the Congress.

We are proud of the progress that we have made in our schools.

Statehood is the way that we get there.

I control a part of the criminal justice system. And you, on the Federal level, control the rest.

The Trump Hotel, sir, is not a Government--it does not have a Government use.

Well, it's being treated like all of the other hotels, sir.

The Constitution never envisioned people voting in D.C., yes, they never envisioned a modern metropolis of 700,000 people.

We need to put this committee out of business.

That is why we want to become the 51st state in the United States.