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Schumer: ‘I’d Love’ to Make D.C. and Puerto Rico States, ‘Everything Is on the Table
Breitbart ^ | 09/30/2020 | Ian Hanchett

Posted on 10/01/2020 5:56:40 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that he would “love to” make D.C. and Puerto Rico states and addressed the prospect of ending the filibuster if Democrats take the Senate by stating, “I’m not busting my chops to become majority leader to do very little or nothing. We are going to get a whole lot done. And as I’ve said, everything, everything is on the table.”

Schumer said that Senate Democrats are “using all the tactics we can” to slow down Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: dc; puertorico; schumer; table
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Requires a Constitutional amendment and 2/3 of the States’ agreement?
For both?


Puerto Rico would only require a majority vote in both houses of Congress and the President’s signature.

I don’t know D.C. can be admitted as a state without a Constitutional Amendment. Besides the text in the Constitution itself which says the seat of government shall be in a Federal District no larger than 6-miles square (not 6 square miles), there’s the problem of the 23rd Amendment granting the Federal District 3 Electoral Votes.

Amendments have to be ratified by 3/4ths of the states.


61 posted on 10/01/2020 7:56:41 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Requires a Constitutional amendment and 2/3 of the States’ agreement?

That is my hope. I read on the interwebs that a simple majority is all that is needed. I really hope this is NOT the case.

62 posted on 10/01/2020 8:26:52 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: dfwgator

Even Lower Manhattan.


63 posted on 10/01/2020 8:28:20 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: cll

When I was in Viet Nam,(1970-71) Puerto Ricans from Puerto Rico called the ones from NYC “New Yoricans”. The 2 groups did not get along AT ALL.


64 posted on 10/01/2020 8:47:42 AM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: cyclotic

The unfair thing is YOUR state pays for the infrastructure that moves DC traffic - their “beltway” is in YOUR state and upkeep is primarily your financial responsibility. How will Maryland taxpayers react if DC becomes an actual state and Maryland is STILL paying for DC roads?


65 posted on 10/01/2020 8:48:24 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: redshawk

I suspect some of those would be red states if they did that.


66 posted on 10/01/2020 8:48:38 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Most people here are so completely immune to the thought that Government can be wrong and overbearing they won’t even think about it


67 posted on 10/01/2020 8:57:43 AM PDT by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Everything Is under the Table kickback party starts at 5:00.


68 posted on 10/01/2020 9:10:49 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

With the attempted takeover and destruction of the U.S., democrats are far more dangerous to the country than the USSR and China or any other hostile country have ever been.

No country has ever done more damage to the U.S., than our very own home-grown radicals, otherwise known as democrats.


69 posted on 10/01/2020 9:35:19 AM PDT by adorno
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To: Mr. K

If democrats gives statehood to cesspool places a counter situation is possible Texas could divided itself into five states. Congressional approval is not required. Imagine Central, North, South, East and West Texas USA.

Have fun with that thought!


70 posted on 10/01/2020 9:46:15 AM PDT by hdstmf
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To: cll

When the enemy is shooting themselves in their foot don’t tell them.


71 posted on 10/01/2020 9:51:02 AM PDT by hdstmf
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I was listening to a talk radio show the other day and a geniune caller (not a lib plant) was believing a false accusation Schumer said about ACB/other because “he seems honest.” The host gaffawed and and said when Schumer speaks “the devil comes out” in explaining the caller had been duped.


72 posted on 10/01/2020 10:17:49 AM PDT by Moonlighter
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Schumer:

Please refer to the photos in another FR item today.YOU & YOUR cohorts are totally responsible for the garbage problems in NYC.

Clean up your own back porch.....


73 posted on 10/01/2020 10:21:21 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Lurkinanloomin

IIRC, the Constitution specifically says that the seat of the Federal Government can NOT be a state.


74 posted on 10/01/2020 10:22:16 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: dowcaet

The Rat party is nothing more than a bad habit/tradition for too many. Good you jumped off.


75 posted on 10/01/2020 10:26:44 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Puerto Rico voted against statehood when they brought it up for referendum. They get all the benefits without having to pay the federal income tax. Highway funds, Social security, etc.
76 posted on 10/01/2020 10:30:59 AM PDT by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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To: political1
Puerto Rico voted against statehood when they brought it up for referendum. They get all the benefits without having to pay the federal income tax. Highway funds, Social security, etc.

I wonder if we could get Az. to do that too?

77 posted on 10/01/2020 10:34:24 AM PDT by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel; cll; All

Be careful the precedents you establish by Executive Order, they may come back to bite you.


78 posted on 10/01/2020 10:35:41 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Shut DC down. It is a City State unaccountable to the people of this country.


79 posted on 10/01/2020 10:36:27 AM PDT by Chgogal (ALL lives matter. If you disagree with me, YOU are the racist.)
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