51st State ............

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats controlling the House have slated a vote next week to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, an issue that they say has become far more important in the aftermath of protests for racial justice in both Washington and across the nation.

Next Friday’s vote, if successful, would pass a D.C. statehood bill for the first time in the House, but the legislation faces insurmountable opposition in the GOP-controlled Senate. It comes even as the COVID-19 pandemic has forced delays in the consideration of most other legislation. More than enough lawmakers are officially backing the bill for it to pass. In 1993, the Democratic-controlled Congress defeated a D.C. statehood bill by an almost 2-1 margin.

What A Horse Bucket !  > Dems Pandering To The Headlines... Again.

Mr. Perfect

I wonder if they've considered, even for one moment, why it isn't one. And whether they actually want it to be a state with the current white house occupant.

And they conveniently forget that it requires constitutional amendment to change its status.

Junkballer

Sure they will push it, if D.C and Puerto Rico both became states that would forever give the Democratic party 4 Senators, then if that works possibly American Samoa will come along too.  Obama may have been right in his count after all......

chiefr

DEMOCRATs have been trying to make DC a state merely to gain 2 senators. Fathers never intended DC to be a state, but then again, we see the DEMOCRATs and their allies in the media could care less about what the founding fathers intended.

DEMOCRATs are presently, and with the encouragement of their allies in the media, using the Covid pandemic and the Floyd unrest to take down statutes of our founding fathers and other historical figures they dont like.

jimdeere

I say go for it and let DC have northern Virginia.