Just The News: Democrats in Congress renew push for D.C. statehood, but it faces uphill climb in Senate.
Democrats in Congress are renewing their push for Washington D.C. statehood with their party in the majority in the House and Senate.
Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the non-voting House member representing the District, has reintroduced the Washington, D.C. Admission Act, which has picked up 210 Democratic co-sponsors so far. Delaware Democratic Sen. Tom Carper introduced the Senate version of the bill, which has 39 Democratic co-sponsors to date.
Under the bill, the Mayor of the District of Columbia “shall issue a proclamation for the first elections to Congress of two Senators and one Representative of the commonwealth,” and the “bill applies current District laws to the commonwealth and continues pending judicial proceedings.”
House Democrats passed D.C. statehood in the last session of Congress 232-180. There were no Republicans in the House who voted in favor of the bill. The statehood effort could pass in the Democrat-led House again, but it faces obstacles in the Senate due, in part, to the legislative filibuster. read more
With two Senators for D.C., this would make its residents some of the most politically powerful people in the United States.
Unconstitutional and unnecessary. More proof that the District of Corruption needs to be recognized as a place where Plantation Dwellers and corrupt Dementiacrats thrive in a swamp where corruption and welfare addiction combine to produce everything that is wrong with the United States. This is proof that the Constitution doesn’t mean anything to the professional politicians pushing this nonsense.
Think of how many flags would have to be made in china and purchased in US dollars. Genius way to stimulate the economy Idiots.
“Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of the document reads, “The Congress shall have Power To …exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States.”
Read this “Eleanor”
No, this would be a good thing, but only if the new state includes the surrounding counties in Virginia and Maryland. Then, without the deep blue counties running roughshod over these said states, Maryland and Virginia would be red states. Gain of 2 senators for the left, but a gain of 4 senators for the right. But also, only if the republican party is gutted and real conservatives are elected.
Sure why not create an even bigger tax money suck-up zone that could never truly afford itself or ever mind it’s own business?
Surely could never be self-sustaining.
This move would break the Constitution…as intended? Why not NYC as a State? Or LA? Chicago?…
OR
Make 1 huge State out of all the “Red” States and create 49 new states in Demoncrat controlled areas. This is what Demoncracy looks like.