06/28/2010
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"the demand for D.C. residents to be given their equal rights... is an effort to right the wrong of more than 200 years of disenfranchisement."
"Republican opposition to H.R. 51, as well as the voting restrictions Republican legislators are trying to impose across the country, requires us to revisit first principles."
"These fundamental disparities for hundreds of thousands of Americans conflict with the core principles of our Republic."
"D.C. pays more in Federal taxes than 22 states and more per capita than any state in our Nation."