[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 104 (Tuesday, June 15, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H2755]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 STATEHOOD FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Madam Speaker, the D.C. statehood bill will receive a 
hearing in the Senate, and I expect the date to be announced today. I 
appreciate that our D.C. statehood bill has already passed the House, 
and I thank the House.
  Our hearings and House passage have alerted Americans that the 
residents of their own Nation's Capital do not have the same rights as 
other Americans. As a result, a detailed poll now shows that 54 percent 
of the American people support D.C. statehood for the District of 
Columbia.
  As Americans who pay the highest Federal taxes per capita in the 
United States, D.C. residents say it is about time--indeed, well past 
time--for Congress to grant statehood to the residents of the District 
of Columbia.

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