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 America as the 51st state.
We have been very committed in our city to transparency in government and, in fact, have been very proud to advance some...
the way that you and all of my residents can ask me about how we're driving down crime is to make sure that we have comp...
It is a great indignity when great questions affecting this country we have nobody to call in the Senate to speak for us...
As Mayor of the District of Columbia, I swear an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Our very existence could be wiped away by the whim of the Congress.
We are proud of the progress that we have made in our schools.
I control a part of the criminal justice system. And you, on the Federal level, control the rest.
We would have the electoral college votes that our population requires.
Well, it's being treated like all of the other hotels, sir.
Statehood is the way that we get there.