‘We will not quit until we achieve full democracy,’ said Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser.

‘No one’s compelled to actually be here,’ said Sen. James Lankford.

Rep. Mondaire Jones slammed racist comments from Republicans suggesting the district wasn’t ‘working class’ enough to be a state, among other things.

It’s the South Carolina Republican’s latest argument against granting nearly three-quarters of a million voters representation in Congress.

Rep. Steve Scalise’s home state of Louisiana has led the nation in homicides for 31 years, but he thinks crime should disqualify Washington, D.C., from statehood.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said the District of Columbia doesn’t have a large enough population even for a full House district.

It would be ‘the only state without an airport, without a car dealership, without a capital city, without a landfill,’ said Rep. Jody Hice.

Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) said the District of Columbia shouldn’t be a state because the Founding Fathers would have wanted states to have airports and car dealerships.

Republicans say giving Americans representation in Congress is a ‘power grab’ by Democrats.

Over 720,000 Americans live in Washington, D.C. Most of them are Black.

The bill would create a new state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, in honor of Maryland-born Frederick Douglass.

The White House does not think the District of Columbia should have the same voting power as a small, conservative state like Wyoming.