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Muddy the waters. not to look like hes losing. >> let me dumb this down as a taxpayer. i cant figure this out. is the cents us about determining how many citizens in this country or how many people are in this country? i live in an area that has a tub of immigrants. i want to know every person there because i want every tax dollar. whether it is an illegal immigrant or not whether it relates to sanitation or schools or roads. i thought the census was determining how many people are here so we ca...

Parts of the state therefore have disproportionate power and ironic about this is that 50 years ago when the supreme court finally stepped in, the warren court in the 1960s and established the principle, it was rural parts of the country and small towns way overrepresented in legislatures throughout the united states and in congress. and so how in 50 years later here we are having the very same people enjoying way too much representation asking for more. >> you write about that. if you dont noes...

Obama held fewer news conferences than george w. bush or bill clinton. over four years the president held 79 such briefings, that is ten fewer than mr. bush and 54 fewer than president clinton. starting this weekend, president obamas limousine will carry license plates with the phrase taxation without representation. its a protest over the district of colombia not having voting representatives in congress. president clinton used the plates but george w. bush chose to use a different design wit...

>> thank you, rachel. >> you make the argument republicans would dare not try an abortion ban like this nationwide where people had voting representatives. why do you think that is and why do you think theyve singled out d.c.? >> very important, rachel. if you think they are coming after district of columbia, sure, because thats the easiest thing to do, but their interest is really not in the district of columbia. this 20-week abortion ban, theyve marched through nine conservative states, then i...

Its not that they are not interested in d.c., they are just not interested in having d.c. vote on things affecting d.c. yesterday, though she cannot vote, eleanor holmes norton ask her statement be included in the record. "republicans dare not take on the women of this country with a post-20-week ban on abortions. instead, the majority has chosen a cheap and cynical way." joining us now, eleanor holmes norton, congresswoman norton, nobody gets to vote on this show, but if there were, youd have f...

Instead, the majority has chosen a cheap and cynical way." joining us now, eleanor holmes norton, congresswoman norton, nobody gets to vote on this show, but if there were, youd have full voting rights here. great to have you here. >> thank you, rachel. >> you make the argument republicans would dare not try an abortion ban like this nationwide where people had voting representatives. why do you think that is and why do you think theyve singled out d.c.? >> very important, rachel. if you think t...