Joe Lieberman: “I happen to agree with Senator McCain that matters of sexual orientation and race are fundamentally different.”

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.

partisan considerations have absolutely nothing to do with the quest of D.C. citizens for full democracy

I hope that the spirit of bipartisanship... will guide your Committee's consideration of the deprivation of voting representation in Congress for citizens of our Capital City.