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Washington, D.C. Admission Act

Floor Speech

Date: April 22, 2021
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Federal, State and Local Relations

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Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of ending the disenfranchisement of over 700,000 people, including most of the staff that works for us every single day.

Our Nation is the only democratic country in the world that denies full democratic rights to the citizens living in its Nation's Capital. That is more than 700,000 American citizens who pay Federal taxes, who fight and die in wars, who serve on our juries, and yet have no vote in the Senate or the House of Representatives. That is the definition of taxation without representation.

It is 219 years overdue for the citizens of the District of Columbia to have their right to vote.

Let me thank and commend my colleague, Eleanor Holmes Norton, for all of her decades of work. It is time to vote ``yes'' on statehood for the District of Columbia.

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