Posted on 01/04/2019 6:06:13 PM PST by Repeal 16-17
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has introduced a bill to make the District the 51st state.
H.R. 51, the D.C. Statehood Bill, was introduced by Holmes Norton on Thursday, the day that the 116th Congress was gaveled into session.
“I have a commitment that there will be a hearing on H.R. 51 from our good Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Elijah Cummings that this bill will get a prompt hearing and then, of course, go to the floor,” Holmes Norton said in a video posted to her official Twitter page.
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We don’t need two more lunatic senators from DC. I’d be more in favor of declaring DC a seditious territory and setting up an American-style Nuremberg tribunal.
This ^ + 1
Yes, and if they ever manage to get them through the constitution is toast. It would then be time to take the Declaration seriously.
Norton introduces this Bill at the start of every session.
Great idea. Why do we need a district anymore? If residents want representation, then let them vote as citizens of Maryland or Virginia.
I'm a little fuzzy on the Delegate's Constitutional ability to introduce a bill. This nutcase is not a Member of Congress, merely a Delegate from the District of Columbia. And this particular action can only be accomplished by a Constitutional Amendment. That must be introduced in due form by a Member of Congress.
Great idea. I wonder why those dimbulb founders of ours never considered it? They were so scatterbrained.
The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment was proposed by Congress on August 22, 1978. Section 1 of the proposal, its principal part, said:
For purposes of representation in the Congress, election of the President and Vice President, and article V of this Constitution, the District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall be treated as though it were a State.
By the time this proposal died when its seven-year time limit on ratification expired, it had received only 16 ratifications; it needed 38 for adoption. Knowing a solid majority of States were against DC Statehood, or any variant of it, the Democrats have repeatedly tried to get a DC Representative and DC Senators added to Congress via legislation.
I'm glad the House Democrats will hold hearings on this bill. The People, especially the "swing voters", can see how much the Democrats disrespect the Constitution. Fortunately, the Republicans have the Senate and Trump is President.
Wouldn’t the 23rd Amendment to the Constitution have to be repealed?
As I understand it, the whole point of the Federal Government being located in a District controlled by Congress instead of a state is to prevent the Federal government being hindered by a hostile state government—much as what we are seeing with New York’s new Attorney General declaring that her first priority is to go after the President and his family.
Congress has for political reasons allowed the District to become more or less self governing, but the Constitution says that Congress has the last word.
If the District were to be a state, any Republican would be at the mercy of a hostile “state” government. In the election of 2016, President Trump got 11,500 votes to Hillary’s 260,000.
D.C. is full of federal property. Its a district to allow lawmakers freedom from state laws. Imagine if D.C. became California east! Every senator would have to put up with California law instead of federal laws on federal property. imagine the state allowing its citizens to practice harassing lawmakers mercilessly 24/7 while inside state boundaries. D.C. can never be a state because it would quickly become a place lawmakers would have no control of. not to mention there isn’t enough tax paying base to protect congress. - D.C. state police? ROTFLMAO
And we certainly don't need any more Democratic senators.
Technically no, but the members of the First Family living in the White House would be entitled to 3 electoral votes on account of being the only people residing in the National Capital Service Area (the only part of DC that would not be part of the new State).
“D.C.’s land came from Maryland and Virginia?”
“Originally, but the Virginia portion was “retroceded” (returned to Virginia) in 1846.”
Well make the residential areas part of Maryland then, or make it a Congressional district in Maryland, and give them voting franchise in Maryland.
It is ridiculously inefficient to establish all the overhead of a State Government for so few people and so little land.
It’s a District, not a state. In fact, it resides in Maryland if I remember correctly. So, if they want to stop being DC, they can get absorbed back where they came from.
Just what the nation needs. /s
Is increasing their power the only thing Democrats want to do ?
Retrocede the excess land back to Maryland with the exception of the federal district. Maryland is left lost and the added lunatics won’t impair the native stupidity.
“Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has introduced a bill to make the District the 51st state. “
Ok. But the capital of the nation then gets moved somewhere else!
Dearest Eleanor is an arrogant , self-important , race-baiter criminal who constantly grandstands her idiocy and lunacy. What a piece of work .
It’s already a disgrace that DC gets 3 electoral votes
I think its a grand idea and Trump should go along with it.
But only if the Feds all leave DC and move to Brownsville, TX.
Should be agreeable they be much closer to ones they love.
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