May 20, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 84 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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                             D.C. STATEHOOD

  (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, women who celebrate 100 years of suffrage 
this year have in common with the residents of the Nation's Capital 
this: denial of equal rights in their democracy, requiring decades of 
fighting.
  It took 132 years since the Nation's founding for women to get the 
vote.
  It has taken 218 years, and still counting, for D.C. residents to 
achieve statehood, which includes voting rights and all the rights that 
come with equal citizenship.
  We are grateful that as we move forward to a formal vote on 
statehood, the House has already endorsed D.C. statehood in H.R. 1.
  Today, women set the pace in our democracy, outvoting men in national 
elections. D.C. residents yearn to join them in showing that those who 
are denied their rights know how to use them after fighting to achieve 
them.

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