Joe Lieberman: “Well, that is encouraging.”

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

I think this is a unique moment in history where the American people are so fed up with the two parties

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.

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