Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

D.C. would be the only state in the entire country to have the Federal Government pick up billions and billions of annual dollars in expense...

The text only refers to, and I'll quote: 'The district constituting the seat of government.'

It does not. It says nothing. Those are the words. It says nothing about characteristics of the new states.

I urge all of you to do what over two centuries of lawmakers have failed to correct and grant full democracy to D.C. residents through state...