Joe Lieberman: “I think this is a case really where it would have been better to have a national answer...”

This is a wrong that needs to be righted.

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.

I appreciate the leadership that the Committee is showing, because this really is a threat to our country.

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.