Like, learn about American history and you will understand that all of the fraudulent arguments being made against the admission of Washington, DC, as a new state have been made ag...
Take the word of the former Delegate from D.C., my colleague Eleanor Holmes Norton's predecessor, who had opposed stateh...
But there's a national political logic for it, too, because the Senate has become the principal obstacle to social progr...
Take the word of John Dingell, a liberal titan, the longest-serving Member of Congress, who supported every single civil...
Take the word of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, who dismissed what he called the statehood fallacy.
Under Article IV of the Constitution, we have the power to admit new states.
These are frivolous arguments. This is--you know, this is just flotsam and jetsam floating around.
But it's already been established that Congress can modify the boundaries of the Federal District.
I want to thank you for following the nonviolent and constitutional path to political equality in America, which is set ...
Which, actually, was the main political agenda of a great Republican Member of the House of Representatives named Abraha...
We've just heard from several of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle about how Democrats win elections in the ...