07/07/2009
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"We are more than capable of governing ourselves."
"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 expenses each year."
"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."