07/14/2015
https://www.congress.gov...
"D.C. residents are American citizens. They fought, they fought honorably to protect our Nation overseas."
"statehood for D.C. is about fairness and equality."
"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."