Hice then argued that the District of Columbia should not be a state, in part because it does not have a car dealership. He then apologized after being told that DC did have car dealers – although he explained that he still did not know where to get one.
Hice, who warned that DC is getting special funding from the federal government, said the country’s founders want to prevent the district from becoming ‘first among states’. He continues: “DC would be the only state, the only state, without an airport, without a car dealer, without a capital, without a landfill …”
Democratic Representative Gerald Connolly of Virginia, who denounces the “absurdity” of arguments against state capture, later told the committee that car dealers exist in DC. When Hice took his turn again, he said, “If there’s a car dealer in DC, I’m sorry I was wrong. I do not know where it is.”
These are multiple traders, not a single trader. But anyway, Hice seems to be untouched by his mistake. He repeated the rest of his previous list, warning that DC would become a state without a capital, an airport or a landfill.
We are going to ignore that car dealers and airports did not exist when the Constitution was written.