02/01/2012
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"I thank you for the opportunity to testify this morning and this afternoon on their behalf."
"I was personally surprised to learn last year that the United States is the only democracy in the world that denies voting representation to the people who live in its capital city."
"The Congress can continue to exercise autocratic control over the District of Columbia or it can live up to the Nation's promise and its ideals by passing the New Columbia Admission Act."
"If citizens do not have anyone to vote for, they are not substantially better off than African-Americans in the South were prior to 1965."