Political Quotes

it would show that this is not fantasy, that this is real.

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.

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.

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