IV 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 842 
Recognizing the contributions of Senator Joseph I. Lieberman to the nation 
and to the equal rights and general welfare of the citizens of the District 
of Columbia. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 20, 2012 
Ms. NORTON submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the contributions of Senator Joseph I. Lieber-
man to the nation and to the equal rights and general 
welfare of the citizens of the District of Columbia. 
Whereas Senator Joseph I. Lieberman has served 24 years 
in the Senate of the United States in faithful service to 
the citizens of the State of Connecticut, who elected him 
to the U.S. Senate for his fourth term in 2006; 
Whereas Senator Joseph I. Lieberman announced on January 
18, 2012, that he would retire from the United States 
Senate at the end of the 112th Congress after serving 
four terms; 
Whereas Senator Joseph I. Lieberman has been a champion 
for equal rights for all Americans throughout his life and 
throughout his service in the United States Senate; 
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Whereas Senator Joseph I. Lieberman’s service to the nation 
was so exceptional that he was nominated for the office 
of Vice President of the United States by the Democratic 
National Convention in 2000, ran with Presidential 
Nominee Albert Gore, Jr. and together they garnered the 
plurality of the votes of the American people; 
Whereas Senator Joseph I. Lieberman was the principle au-
thor of the bill that created the U.S. Department of 
Homeland Security after the September 11, 2001, ter-
rorist attacks on the United States; 
Whereas Senator Joseph I. Lieberman rose to become chair-
man of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs Committee and was so respected for his biparti-
sanship and excellent service that he was re-elected chair-
man of the committee even after becoming an Inde-
pendent; 
Whereas Senator Joseph I. Lieberman’s accomplishments on 
many domestic, defense, and international matters of 
great importance to the United States have been recog-
nized and honored; 
Whereas Senator Joseph I. Lieberman has been a tireless 
leader on matters that have had deep and lasting effects 
on the District of Columbia and the national capital re-
gion throughout his service in the United States Senate 
and on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs Committee; 
Whereas Senator Joseph I. Lieberman has served as chair-
man or ranking member of the Senate committee with ju-
risdiction over the District of Columbia since 1999; 
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Whereas Senator Joseph I. Lieberman served as the ranking 
member of the subcommittee with jurisdiction over the 
District of Columbia during the 105th Congress; 
Whereas the more than 600,000 residents of the District of 
Columbia have all the obligations of United States citi-
zenship, including payment of all Federal taxes, but do 
not have full voting representation in the United States 
Congress and do not have local autonomy free from con-
gressional interference; 
Whereas Senator Joseph I. Lieberman has provided indispen-
sable leadership to the District of Columbia, which has 
no representation in the United States Senate, enabling 
both Chambers to consider and pass important District 
of Columbia legislation; 
Whereas Senator Joseph I. Lieberman was the sponsor of the 
District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009 
(S. 160; 111th Congress) to grant the District a voting 
seat in the United States House of Representatives and 
led the United States Senate to passage of the bill on 
February 26, 2009, by a vote of 61–37, the first such bill 
to be passed by the Senate since 1978; 
Whereas Senator Joseph I. Lieberman was the sponsor of the 
No Taxation Without Representation Act (107th, 108th, 
and 109th Congress) to grant the District of Columbia 
full voting representation in the United States Senate 
and House of Representatives, which the Committee on 
Governmental Affairs passed on October 9, 2002, by a 
vote of 9–0; 
Whereas Senator Joseph I. Lieberman introduced the New 
Columbia Admission Act (S. 3696; 112th Congress), to 
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grant the District of Columbia statehood in the 112th 
Congress and got cosponsors for the bill; 
Whereas recently, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman turned his 
attention to budget autonomy for the District of Colum-
bia when it became the emphasis of the District govern-
ment, the only local government in the United States 
that cannot obligate or expend its local funds without 
congressional approval, and therefore incurs many oper-
ational difficulties and unnecessary costs; 
Whereas Senator Joseph I. Lieberman sponsored the District 
of Columbia Local Budget Autonomy Act of 2012 (S. 
2345; 112th Congress), to grant the District the author-
ity to obligate and expend its local funds without congres-
sional approval and to set its own fiscal year; 
Whereas Senator Joseph I. Lieberman has assisted in the ad-
ministration of justice in the District of Columbia Courts 
system, most recently by ushering through the United 
States Senate legislation including the District of Colum-
bia Courts and Public Defender Service Act of 2011 (S. 
1379; 112th Congress), which was presented to the 
President on December 17, 2012; 
Whereas Senator Joseph I. Lieberman has worked to elimi-
nate barriers to full equality and self-government for Dis-
trict of Columbia residents as an original cosponsor of 
the Hatch Act Modernization Act of 2012 (S. 2170; 
112th Congress), approved by the United States Senate 
on November 30, 2012, and by the United States House 
of Representatives on December 19, 2012, under which 
District government employees will no longer be treated 
the same as Federal employees under the Hatch Act and 
instead will be treated the same as other local and State 
government employees, and the District government will 
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operate under its own local Hatch Act, already adopted 
by the District government; 
Whereas Senator Joseph I. Lieberman has strengthened the 
District of Columbia economy, most recently by his work 
to get Senate passage of economic development bills, in-
cluding the redevelopment of the Southwest and South-
east waterfronts, and by promoting the construction of 
the U.S. Department of Homeland Security headquarters 
on the St. Elizabeths campus in Ward 8; and 
Whereas Senator Joseph I. Lieberman has supported critical 
education initiatives in the District of Columbia, such as 
the District of Columbia Tuition Assistance Grant Pro-
gram, which significantly reduces the cost of college tui-
tion for District residents and has doubled college attend-
ance by District residents: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes that Senator Joseph I. Lieber-
man is the Senate’s greatest living champion of 
equal rights for the citizens of the District of Colum-
bia in his pursuit of statehood, equal representation 
and home rule for the District; and 
(2) commends Senator Joseph I. Lieberman for 
his dedicated service not only to his own State and 
to the United States, but also for his achievements 
and support for equal citizenship rights for the citi-
zens of the District of Columbia, who have no rep-
resentation in the United States Senate. 
Æ 
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