“In your knowledge, ma’am, is there any other municipality in these United States that has access to our seat of government as the citizens of Washington, DC?” Louisiana Republican Clay Higgins asks of Washington, DC mayor Muriel Bowser, who responded, “Actually they all have more access because they have voting members of Congress,” a response that elicited applause from the audience.
Higgins also claimed that DC residents can walk into a restaurant and find 100 Senators having dinner, giving them access to the entire Senate no one else in the country has. Bowser responded, “Senator, I’ve already explained. I was born and raised here. I’ve spent most of my life here. … I’ve never been to an event where I happened to bump into 100 senators.”