Rashida Tlaib actually said...

"I feel in many ways all the residents of the Washington D.C. area--in the District of Columbia are being denied access to that representation."

"One of the things that we constantly talk about is no taxation without representation was one of the rallying cries of the American Revolution, and the full phrase was 'taxation without representation..."

"Yet, that they are deprived of having their elected officials vote in Congress, one of the most fundamental principles underlining our Constitution."

"transformative change doesn't happen because it starts in the halls of Congress. It happens because of movement work"