On the recordJune 15, 2021
The D.C. statehood bill will receive a hearing in the Senate, and I expect the date to be announced today. I appreciate that our D.C. statehood bill has already passed the House, and I thank the House. Our hearings and House passage have alerted Americans that the residents of their own Nation's Capital do not have the same rights as other Americans. As a result, a detailed poll now shows that 54 percent of the American people support D.C. statehood for the District of Columbia. As Americans who pay the highest Federal taxes per capita in the United States, D.C. residents say it is about time--indeed, well past time--for Congress to grant statehood to the residents of the District of Columbia. ____________________
