[JamesP81]

If we can give them NOVA it might be worth it.

[deadrock]

[xp38]

Wasn’t the whole idea for DC not to be a state and be separate from them.

[2banana]

A city wants the political power of a state.

No.

Oh - and you need to Amend the US Constitution.

Double no.

Article I, Section 8: “The Congress shall have power … To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States.” Congress has the same power over “forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings”—and it’s obvious that Congress can’t give a Navy pier or a federal building a seat in the House.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A totally Democrat electoral vote. What a great idea!

[FlingWingFlyer]

So if the District of Corruption gets statehood, where do we move the national capitol to? We sure don’t want to leave it in that sewer.

[Ray76]

The national government can not be represented in the national government, that’s ridiculous!

[198ml]

Nevermind it’s unconstitutional.

[Migraine]

If they get statehood, we should move the national capital to the middle of Kansas.

[Right-wing Librarian]

Why should they become a state? The lands originally belonged to Virginia and Maryland. The states gave up the land in order to create D.C.

If they want to become a state, let the land revert back to its original owners and be part of those states.

Better yet, dissolve D.C. altogether, and operate a tiny Fed gov’t from one office building! “That’ll learn’em!”

[goldstategop]

Not going to happen.

Asking the GOP to create three more Democratic seats is about the least likely thing.

AK and HI were admitted together because they preserved the partisan balance.

DC does the opposite.

[vette6387]

I didn’t know a swamp could become a state.

[Rummyfan]

As for pitching statehood to Congress, Bowser said she stresses that D.C. statehood doesn’t have to be a partisan issue.

Yeah, right.

[ops33]

IIRC, the original law that established the DC stated that if the Federal government no longer needed an independent district for its capital the land would revert back to the state of origin. This is what with Alexandria, it went back to Virginia. So, give the District back to Maryland.