Posted on 06/16/2019 9:40:05 AM PDT by david1292
WASHINGTON — After over 200 years without voting rights, the efforts to allow Washington, DC, to become the 51st state are gaining traction. The House of Representatives has set the first-ever congressional hearing on statehood legislation, and now a majority of the Democrats running for president say they support making DC a state.
The House will hold a hearing July 24 for the Washington, D.C. Admission Act, which would put the nation’s capital on even ground with other states, giving it two voting senators and at least one representative. The bill would end “taxation without representation” in DC — a passive-aggressive slogan used on license plates in Washington to bring attention to the statehood fight.
The act is sponsored by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, who represents DC’s more than 700,000 residents in Congress and who currently can propose legislation but cannot vote on bills. Her statehood bill has 209 Democratic cosponsors.
Meanwhile, the 51 for 51 campaign is pushing members of Congress and presidential candidates to support making the district a state with 51 votes in the Senate instead of the 60 votes currently required with the filibuster. Stasha Rhodes, campaign manager for 51 for 51, said the campaign sent seven people, six of whom are native to Washington, DC, to Iowa to speak with Democratic presidential candidates about statehood through 51 votes in the Senate. They spoke with seven presidential candidates who said they supported their proposed path to statehood: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Andrew Yang, Gov. Steve Bullock, and Reps. Eric Swalwell, Tim Ryan, and John Delaney. The group from 51 for 51 tweeted videos of themselves speaking to the candidates.
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DOnt much care what democrats think. They are wrong about pretty much everything.
What’s wrong with DC being absorbed into VA or MD?
If anything, give that piece of crap back to Maryland, my state of residence.
I don’t recall any other state that became one via constitutional amendment. Maybe there’s something in the Constitution specifically about DC of which I’m not aware.
The Capitol cannot be within a state.
Move it to Johnston Atoll.
Let the British burn it again.
It should be divided on the original State Lines...but still be it’s own District. No reason why these people should not be allowed to vote.
Because their main goal is to get more seats in Congress to gain a permanent majority. DC would give them two more Senate seats.
DC is not a state for a reason - it should never have interests independent of and in opposition to that of any State.
Big problems with that. I’ll have to review for myself whether such a move would even be constitutional (not that the Left gives a sh#t about that). Certainly not good for our country.
But EVERYTHING the Delusional Lying Leftist Dems do is bad for us and our country. They are a virulent disease and blight on our country.
...and resume full-scale testing...
If by the Constitution then only an amendment can change it's status.
Don’t really care what BuzzFod has to say.
No.
The act is sponsored by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, who represents DC’s more than 700,000 residents in Congress and who currently can propose legislation but cannot vote on bills. Her statehood bill has 209 Democratic cosponsors.
what do you do about Amendment 23
Section 1. The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct:
A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.[2]
The Republican party agreed with the Democrats that natural born citizens can be just American on their mother’s side.
Winston Churchill wouldn’t have needed his “honorary” citizenship.
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