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On the recordMarch 22, 2007
Mr. Speaker, this Nation was built upon the principle that it was patently unjust to require people to pay taxes to a government within which they had no direct involvement, what came to be familiarly called "taxation without representation." The fact that approximately 600,000 U.S. citizens live under taxation without representation within the United States today is repugnant to our very notion of democracy and to those who fought and died in creating this great Nation. How can the United States deny democracy in its capital while it promotes democracy abroad?
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Michael Arcuri
New York
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Discussing the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2007.

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