Please sign the petition and tell the Senate to support DC's right to make its own laws. Tell Congress: keep your hands off DC. https://t.co/lIHoGkPh3I
Today @MayorBowser joined Delaware Senator Carper, DC Congresswoman Norton, Maryland Senator Van Hollen, and DC Chairman Mendelson to announce the introduction of the DC Statehood Bill for the 118th Congress.
As tax filing season starts today, we are reminded that:
✅DC pays more federal taxes per capita than residents of any state, and
✅DC pays more overall federal taxes than 23 states
While being denied voting representation in Congress and full self-government.
An arts education is essential to the whole of education. Art heals. Art inspires. Art engages. It shapes our thinking, and it moves us to action.
Raising the bar in education must include the arts.
In case you were wondering, for Santa, in a single 24-hr Earth-night, to deliver presents to all those who celebrate Christmas, he must visit 25,000 homes per second.
I introduced a bill to permanently authorize funding for a program that provides tuition assistance for higher education to members of the DC National Guard, like other Guard units have.
The DC National Guard is a federal entity.
Statement: https://t.co/D4H6RV0d2h