Sheila Jackson Lee: “I thank the gentleman from Maryland for yielding. And I particularly thank the gentlewoman from Washington, D.C., the…”

“I thank the gentleman from Maryland for yielding. And I particularly thank the gentlewoman from Washington, D.C., the 51st State, the Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton for her hard work. Madam Speaker, breaking news: The people of Washington, D.C., pay taxes. Breaking news: They wear the uniform of the United States of America. And, breaking news: The legislation my friends on the other side of the aisle are proposing is to propose a dictation, as usual, from the United States Federal Government on the people of Washington, D.C. Is anybody in Washington, D.C., raising their hand to be able to participate in the legislation that my friends are offering on this floor, which is to partition--we know what partition means--colored people in dominance and put them wherever the Federal Government thinks that they should belong? I think they need to think twice about that. And, really, if this is a country of the people and for the people, if this is a House of Representatives, then the people of Washington, D.C., deserve to be represented, and they deserve to be represented by the four squares of the dictates and vote of the people of the United States Congress. I am appalled that we would, over the decades, ignore the blood that was shed by those from Washington, D.C., the history that was made by those from Washington, D.C., and the service that was given by those from Washington, D.C. So I rise to support the legislation that provides for the Washington, D.C.…”