09/22/2009
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"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."
"I urge all of you to do what over two centuries of lawmakers have failed to correct and grant full democracy to D.C. residents through statehood."
"H.R. 51 will move us closer to our shared ideals for which District residents have fought and died."