I want to thank Representative Holmes Norton for her tireless fight and, as a fellow Yale Law grad, what she said about the Constitution.
Why do you think we're getting all of these arguments that are doing everything that they can to run away from the conse...
We've just heard from several of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle about how Democrats win elections in the ...
Which, actually, was the main political agenda of a great Republican Member of the House of Representatives named Abraha...
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.
I want to thank you for following the nonviolent and constitutional path to political equality in America, which is set ...
But it's already been established that Congress can modify the boundaries of the Federal District.
These are frivolous arguments. This is--you know, this is just flotsam and jetsam floating around.