I applaud, as this Committee does, the work of my successor, Mayor Adrian Fenty, and our chancellor, Michelle Rhee, in giving unprecedented authority to the D.C. public school administration to act boldly, urgently, and aggressively.
Lieberman praises Fenty and Rhee for their bold education reforms.
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It is self-evidently unacceptable in America to condition the enjoyment of constitutional rights on political party membership.
Thanks very much, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Stabenow, and members of the Committee.
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 think this is a unique moment in history, where the American people are so fed up with the two parties and the two logical probable candidates that they're going to welcome a bipartisan unity third choice on the ballot.
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