I am correcting for the record.
the important point here is that I looks like the Framers understood that they couldn't put everything in the Constitution.
we need to put this committee out of business and...
Congress has plenary authority over the District of Columbia.
The District is in the best financial state it has been in its history.
Our fundamentals are solid. Our population is growing. Our revenues are growing.
Eighty-six percent of the people advised the Council to approve our new Constitution.
It should be noted for the record that the territories don't pay Federal income taxes and the District is No. 1 per capita in Federal income...
Full representation in D.C. is about more than full democracy in D.C.
That is why we want to become the 51st state in the United States.
We don't believe in American democracy in collective guilt. We don't believe in mass punishment.