I thank the gentleman for his motion. And we will attend to his motion presently.
The Constitution does not distinguish between the seat of the Federal Government and the district where the government i...
extending statehood to the District of Columbia must be our objective and our result.
This is America, and Americans are entitled to equal protection under the law. That's why we are demanding statehood.
That is just not the truth. That is not the case. It is about the Constitution.
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 Constituti...
we need to put this committee out of business and...
Congress has plenary authority over the District of Columbia.
That is why we want to become the 51st state in the United States.
The District is in the best financial state it has been in its history.