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Muriel Bowser is the current Mayor of Washington, D.C., serving since January 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first woman to hold this position in the city's history. Bowser has focused on issues such as affordable housing, public safety, and economic development during her tenure. She has also been a prominent voice in advocating for D.C. statehood and local autonomy.
The people of Washington, D.C. saw what can happen when we have nobody arguing for us in the Senate in the CARES package. We were shorted $750 million, three quarters of a billion dollars, to respond to a global pandemic. That is what it…
Well, you know, Joy, the people of Washington, D.C. voted on statehood. They didn’t vote to secede from the Union. They didn’t vote to shirk their taxes. They just voted to say that we need equal representation and full autonomy. We need…
The Constitution does not set out types of industry that have to be in a state in order to be admitted to the state.
The District is proud to pay its fair share of taxes, Congressman. What we are here to ask you to correct is to make sure that we have representation for those taxes.
Every American, Congressman, who pays taxes deserves representation. Our Congresswoman should have a vote and we should have two Senators.
Today, I come to urge this committee and this Congress to move beyond the tired, nonfactual, and, frankly, anti-democratic rhetoric and extend full democracy to the residents of the District of Columbia.
I want to especially thank our Congresswoman, Eleanor Holmes Norton, who has championed equality for Washington, DC, throughout her tenure.
The simple fact is denying American citizens a vote in the body that taxes them goes against the founding principles of this great Nation.
To be clear, the District of Columbia is not requesting other Federal law enforcement personnel and discourages any additional deployment without immediate notification to and consultation with MPD if such plans are underway.
This weekend, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser called on the Trump administration to early-up the federal security preparations for the inauguration.
The situation is urgent. And every member of my Administration is focused on how to blunt this gun violence and the fatalities that have resulted from it.
I was shocked to see unnamed and unidentified Federal police in the Nation's Capital, all the while we're talking about police and community trust.
I think I've been shocked all week about how the Federal government behaved against the American citizens who were peacefully protesting.
Black Lives Matter, that Black humanity matters, and we as a city raise that up as part of our values.
We have been very committed in our city to transparency in government and, in fact, have been very proud to advance some of the toughest transparency rules, ethics rules, data transparency rules anywhere in the Nation.
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 complete control over the agencies that affect crime in Washington, DC, and statehood is the way that we get there.
It is a great indignity when great questions affecting this country we have nobody to call in the Senate to speak for us.
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