In August, we learned from a leaked 2018 FBI document that the FBI considered BIE, black identity extremists, to be as high a priority as white supremacy extremists.

I want to give credit where credit is due, send some shine to my sister in service Eleanor Holmes Norton, who has been a stalwart fighter and champion for over two decades.

For the people of D.C., taxation without representation is more than just a catchy hashtag or a bumper sticker slogan.

Congress, because we are not a state, prohibited our implementing that program.

Today is a truly historic day for Congress, for this committee, for the people of Washington, DC, and for our democracy.

I am so very proud to serve on this committee alongside her, to take up the fight for the rights of workers, families, and the American people.

D.C. residents have all of the responsibilities of citizenship, but they have no congressional voting rights and only limited self-government.

I renew my request that the principle of self-government be extended and the right of suffrage granted to the citizens of the District of Columbia.

When our Nation was founded, it was based on the belief that no people should be subjected to taxation without representation or be governed without their consent.

I also want to give up power to the people and just thank those who have labored in love, foot soldiers who have organized and mobilized and raised your voices time and time again.

Today, more than 60 years after President Eisenhower said those words, D.C. residents overwhelmingly support Statehood.