Mayor Muriel Bowser says she 'will not quit' until D.C. gets statehood

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser slapped down arguments against making D.C. a state during a Senate hearing Tuesday, while also ruffling Republicans' feathers by saying D.C. only had 'one night of rioting' last summer.    

'One thing I know about D.C. residents is that they have been fighting for this for 220 years,' Bowser stated before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. 'We will not quit until we achieve full democracy and our two senators are seated here with you.' 

She knocked down claims that D.C. should be retroceded to Maryland, the state that originally gave the land.  

'Maryland has no claim to the land it ceded to the federal government when the District was founded,' Bowser said. 'Certainly, no one in this body would suggest that Maine should retrocede to Massachusetts or that West Virginia should return to Virginia.' 

Bowser also poked fun at some of the more 'preposterous to inaccurate' arguments she's heard.      

'Just to cite a couple, in 2019 we were asked what would happen to the parking spaces for Congressional staff if the district were to become a state,' the mayor said. 'We were at a loss to see how our full democracy should be equated to just a few parking spaces.' 

'This March I was confronted with concerns that the District could not be a state because it was believed that we didn't have a car dealership, even though we do,' she continued. 

'Statements like these not only discount the civil rights of D.C. residents, they also demonstrate a true lack of understanding of the rapidly growing and thriving businesses and culture that surround the small federal presence,' Bowser added. 

Rep. Jody Hice, a Georgia Republican, had said in a House hearing in March, 'D.C. would be the only state, the only state, without an airport, without a car dealership, without a capital city, without a landfill,

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