04/12/2016
https://congress.gov...
"Senator Carper, I particularly thank you for sponsoring our D.C. statehood bill and for being a champion for D.C. in the Senate, where we have no representation."
"The fact that more than half a million Americans live in the District of Columbia and are denied a single voting representative in Congress is clear an historic wrong and justice demands that it be ad..."
"D.C. pays more Federal taxes per capital--and I will repeat that one. The residents I represent pay more taxes per capita than any State, and pay more Federal taxes, right now, than 21 States."
"It also demonstrates why it is important that we repeal section 6(b) of the Consumer Product Safety Act."