Political Quotes

“I thank my good friend, the distinguished chairwoman of our full committee, for yielding, and I thank my good friend, Eleanor Holmes Norton, the Congresswoman from the District of Columbia, who soon I hope will have the right to vote on the floor of the House. Today, Mr. Speaker, we come together to right a wrong. 750,000 fellow Americans are denied the right to representation in their Congress in the very place in which Congress is located, ironically. It is the only capital in the democratic world that denies its own citizens the right to vote and be represented. We heard a lot of subterfuge here today, and we will hear more about the Constitution, the Constitution that clearly gives Congress the right of admission of a State. Mr. Comer comes from Kentucky. Kentucky was composed of territory claimed by my State, Virginia, and there were a bunch of Whigs. We didn't object. Congress, not a constitutional amendment, admitted Kentucky into the Union, and they elected Whigs, if you can think about that, Mr. Speaker. We didn't make how you might vote a condition, but we do in this case. I have to say that there is a lot of smokescreen to cloak what is really at stake here. When some say this is not about race or partisanship, you can be sure it is about race and partisanship. A city with a minority-majority population that apparently might vote in a different way from some? So what.…”