One of the other ways in which the law attempted to give the DNI authority...
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Chairman Lieberman discusses the law's intent to empower the DNI.
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We got into this because our members about a year-and-a-half ago said to us, oh, my God, another Trump-Biden match. It's not good for the country. It offers no hope of bringing bipartisanship back to Washington regardless of who wins.
It is self-evidently unacceptable in America to condition the enjoyment of constitutional rights on political party membership.
It has mattered to me because there are two great American constitutional principles that are at the heart of the cause of D.C. statehood and that are violated every day in the current treatment of residents of the District of Columbia.
Its not only a weak basis for judgment, it is unacceptable in our system of law and equity.





