Political Quotes

“today I have introduced a D.C. voting rights bill here in the House, and in the Senate it has been introduced by Senator Lieberman with seven sponsors besides Mr. Lieberman: Mr. Feingold, Ms. Feinstein, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Kennedy, and Ms. Landrieu. I will be seeking cosponsors here in the House from both sides of the aisle beginning next week, and I will be seeking it on this eve of war. I am asking Members of the House to consider what it means to send people to war when those same people have no vote in the House and no Senators whatsoever. We, of course, are second per capita in Federal income taxes. Unless one comes from Connecticut, your constituents do not pay as much in Federal income tax as we do. Most of our residents pay income taxes. The difference this year is that we are emphasizing something that most of our residents and most of my colleagues' residents have not had to do. On the eve of war, we honor 50,000 veterans of the District of Columbia who live here now. Three distinguished veterans who are also Washingtonians stood with me to announce that we are introducing the No Taxation Without Representation Act.”