Joe Lieberman: “I think we should push harder to make certain that person actually has the full job.”

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 have never shied from a good fight and I never will.

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

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