In fact, we do a better job than most states. We have a budget of $15.5 billion, which we have balanced 24 times in the last 24 years.
But we're bigger by population than two states, bigger than all states but Oklahoma at the time they were admitted to the Union.
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.
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 ...
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 tra...
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 th...
It is a great indignity when great questions affecting this country we have nobody to call in the Senate to speak for us.
Our very existence could be wiped away by the whim of the Congress.
As Mayor of the District of Columbia, I swear an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
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.