Joe Lieberman: “I rise very briefly to thank the Senator from Colorado... what we are doing here tonight is, in some measure, ratifying…”

next year will be the 100th anniversary of the influenza outbreak of 1918. They estimate that at least 50 million and maybe as many as 100 million people died from that flu in 1 year globally.

This is a wrong that needs to be righted.

I applaud the Chairman for bringing this issue. I think it is something that we should be talking about.

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.