Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

Statehood means the United States citizens of the District of Columbia will have the same rights and privileges enjoyed by the United States...

There should be no taxation without representation.

Statehood is the only way to give our citizens locally elected representatives, to enact purely local laws that will not be subject to natio...

To continue to deny statehood to 702,000 residents of Washington, DC, is a failure of the Members of this body to uphold their oath of offic...