Muriel Bowser actually said...

I am honored to be here today to ask Congress to act upon the request of my residents to admit Washington, DC, to join the United States of ...

It is a great indignity when great questions affecting this country we have nobody to call in the Senate to speak for us.

I want to be clear. I am not here to talk about one person, but about 702,000 Americans who deserve full representation in this House.

But we're bigger by population than two states, bigger than all states but Oklahoma at the time they were admitted to the Union.