Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) addresses the fact that the District of Columbia lacks voting representation in Congress.
Senator Joe Lieberman says that Washington DC, as the capital of a free and democratic country, must have voting representatives in Congress. He also claims that because residents of DC don’t have equal representations in Congress, it casts a shadow on the American tradition of democracy. (:40)
January 27, 2005
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