06/28/2021
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"The power grabs are in the eye of the beholder. We think it`s a power grab that all of these people who come from states that were admitted after the original 13 like South Dakota and North Dakota, or..."
"But it's already been established that Congress can modify the boundaries of the Federal District."
"Which, actually, was the main political agenda of a great Republican Member of the House of Representatives named Abraham Lincoln."
"Take the word of the former Delegate from D.C., my colleague Eleanor Holmes Norton's predecessor, who had opposed statehood and recognized the constitutional problem."