releases: https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases/norton-says-248-years-after-nations-independence-dc-statehood-long-overdue
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| https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases/norton-says-248-years-after-nations-independence-dc-statehood-long-overdue | Norton Says 248 Years After the Nation’s Independence, D.C. Statehood is Long Overdue | 2024-07-04 | 2024 | 2024-07 | Democrat | House | DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | N000147 | norton.house.gov | norton | https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases | scraper | WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that, as the nation today celebrates 248 years since declaring independence from Great Britain in part because of taxation without representation, Congress must take the nation's founding slogan to heart and pass the D.C. statehood bill. "The continuation of taxation without representation in the nation's capital not only violates a main pillar of the revolution that sent our Founders to war," Norton said. "Allowing the nearly 700,000 Americans who live in the nation's capital to continue to live as second-class citizens betrays the spirit of July 4th itself. On no U.S. holiday is D.C.'s inequality more deeply felt or more at war with the nation's democratic values than on July 4th. District residents not only pay all federal taxes without voting representation in Congress, they pay more federal taxes per capita than the citizens of any state in the nation. July 4th summons our moral outrage to continue our fight for statehood and full equality for D.C. residents." | 1 | 2026-03-30T01:40:41Z | 2026-04-07T21:24:45Z |