[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 59 (Thursday, April 12, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H3196]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            GRANT THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FULL EMANCIPATION

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow, D.C. begins commemorations of the 
emancipation of slaves in the Nation's Capital 9 months before slavery 
was abolished elsewhere in the United States. Yet, D.C. residents, 156 
years later, still are not free. Congress can overturn local laws 
nowhere else except in the District, and collects taxes without 
representation.
  The residents of the Nation's Capital have more than paid the price 
for their citizenship. Most are native-born American citizens. 
Residents have fought and died in every U.S. war, including the 
Revolutionary War that created the United States of America.
  And D.C. residents rank number one in taxes paid to support the 
United States Government. We are well within our rights to ask Congress 
to grant the District of Columbia full emancipation by making the 
District the 51st State.

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