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congresswoman eleanor holmes norton represents the district of columbia. i want to talk to you about some of the most disturbing testimony yesterday which was police officer harry dunn describing the brutality and the violence and describing the verbal attacks about him including horrible racial slurs. let's listen to some of what he said. >> one woman in a pink maga shirt yelled, "you hear that, guys? this [ bleep ] voted for joe biden," then the crowd joined in screaming, "boo [ bleep ]." no one had ever, ever called me a [ bleep ] while wearing the uniform of a capitol police officer. >> so his description of the "n" word and the description of other racial and verbal, horrible slurs from some of the other witnesses, what's your reaction to that, to the whole nature of this insurrection? >> i do think that his testimony, among others, captured why it is so imperative that there be a full investigation. these officers have essentially set the predicate and made imperative a full investigation. it would be impossible to listen to not only the epithets and

our first is congresswoman eleanor holmes norton, the delegate, from the district of columbia. congresswoman holmes norton has without question been the leading voice in this fight for statehood. she has worked tirelessly, i think that is a good word, to sum up your work. tirelessly to provide her constituents with equal representation throughout her 15 terms tenure in the congress. she recently led the passage of the washington, d.c. admission act through the congress earlier this year. welcome, congresswoman. again, thank you for your tireless leadership on this issue. i speak for the entire committee. we look forward to hearing your remarks. >> microphone? >> is it on now? >> i thank you, mr. chairman. chairman peters, on behalf of the 700,000 district of columbia residents including 30,000 veterans, i thank you for holding and for being an original co-sponsor of holding this hearing, and for being an original co-sponsor of the district of columbia's statehood bill. this hearing is of historic significance because it is only the second senate hearing on our d.c. statehood bil

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representatives, congresswoman eleanor holmes norton and former senator and former chairman of this committee, joe lieberman. i appreciate your attendance here today and i just want to recognize your incredible leadership on this issue over many years. it's wonderful to have you here before the committee. for decades, you both have served us strong advocates in the conversation to give d.c. residents an equal voice. and for the first time in nearly seven years, this committee will continue that discussion in here from the mayor, policy, legal and civil rights experts on how those lawmakers can finally, finally give d.c. residents the same representation in congress as their fellow americans. the lack of representation for the residents of the cities, which serves as a beacon of freedom and democracy around the world, is a stunning contradiction. since 70 -- 1791 president washington signed into law the permanent governance act, dede -- d.c. is our nations capital. it has more than 700,000 residents, many of whom have fought in our wars, paid federal taxes, and served the american people as pu

s statehood longer than eleanor holmes norton. >> i the district of columbia has spent 206 years yieldinge has represented the districts as a delegate for more than 30 years, though she is not allowed to vote on legislation. >> for three generations, my family has been denied the rights other americans take for granted. >> reporter: her grandfather was a d.c. firefighter, working in a segregated unit. >> my father was a civil servant, my mother was a school teacher in the district of columbia public schools. >> reporter: did you know growing up that residents of d.c. had this unusual status? > i simply knew it from the time we were children because you lived in the nation's capital, you had no voting rights. it was as if you didn't live in america. >> reporter: the question over d.c. voting rights stretches back to the beginnings of washington itself. the constitution called for the formation of a federal district, independent of any state, to serve as the nation's capital. land was seeded from maryland and virginia for the 100 square mile district of columbia on the banks of the pat tomo

that's one of the reasons why i've worked for years with congresswoman eleanor holmes norton to supporttions to admit to washington dc as our 51st state and to provide equal rights to the americans who make this community, over 700,000 people, their home. senator carper: here's the question. chief contee, in your testimony, you highlight that a request for dc national guard assistance at the us capitol on january 6th would have have had to have been made by the us capitol police with the consent of the us department of defense. can you just take a minute to explain that process and why mayor bowser's not able to request dc national guard assistance when federal installations and property, as well as human lives, are threatened in the district that she leads? please, go ahead. chief contee: yes. thank you for the question. yeah. so the mayor does not have full authority over the national guard to include their activation or deployment. we make a request as the district of columbia, we make a request. we send that to the federal government. ultimately, the secretary of the army oversees t