[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 61 (Monday, April 16, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H3331]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   D.C. RESIDENTS ARE AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO HAVE OVERPAID FOR THEIR 
                              CITIZENSHIP

  (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, today, marking the signing of President 
Lincoln's proclamation freeing slaves in the Nation's Capital, is a 
local holiday in the District of Columbia. Many D.C. residents worked 
anyway.
  Activist groups in the District of Columbia, including DC Vote, 
brought residents here, who got more Members to sign on to our D.C. 
statehood bill to end taxation without representation for D.C. 
residents, who are number one per capita in taxes paid to support the 
Federal Government, but with no voting Representatives on this House 
floor and no Senators at all.
  Even more shameful, as this poster shows, D.C.'s war casualties have 
often outnumbered those of the States, more than 10 States during the 
Vietnam war, for example.
  D.C. residents are American citizens who have overpaid for their 
citizenship. It is time for Congress to pay back.

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