Joe Lieberman: “I hope when we are asked that, one of the answers we will be able to give is that we adopted the International Religious…”

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.

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.

It is self-evidently unacceptable in America to condition the enjoyment of constitutional rights on political party membership.

Congress has both the moral obligation and the constitutional authority to pass our D.C. statehood bill.