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Carolyn Maloney: “The demand for D.C. residents to be given their equal rights... is an effort to right the wrong of more than 200 years…”

On the recordMarch 21, 2021
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.
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Carolyn Maloney
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Maloney addresses the historical disenfranchisement of D.C. residents.

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