Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

the District is treated as a state for Federal programs with very, very few exceptions, most of them simply oversights or failures to update...

Excluding the District from the definition of state merely because it is not located in an area with a timber industry runs counter to the c...

the District, whose residents pay the highest per capita Federal taxes in the United States, support farm and other programs, continue to be...

I appreciate your allowing me to testify today, and I look forward to working with you to enact this bill.