Joe Lieberman: “we will go to Senator Pryor's amendment No. 2036. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arkansas is recognized.”

The more than 700,000 citizens of the District of Columbia are our neighbors. They deserve to be treated as such by the rest of us in this country.

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

54 percent of the American people, more than half of the American people, support D.C. statehood.

I think the reality of this threat to agricultural security has quite naturally now hit the people in the industry more than people outside.