Joe Lieberman: “I move reconsideration and ask the motion be laid on the table. The motion to lay on the table was agreed to. Amendment…”

We're going to ask the delegates on Friday, do you want us to go forward to do some final surveying of public opinion because we've said we're not going to do this unless we have a chance to win.

Thanks very much, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Stabenow, and members of the Committee.

I hope that the spirit of bipartisanship... will guide your Committee's consideration of the deprivation of voting representation in Congress for citizens of our Capital City.

No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which we must live.