Dems launch longshot bid for DC statehood at rare hearing, as Republicans hammer local corruption

Fox News ^ | September 19, 2019 | Alex Pappas

[Innovative]

I hope there is enough opposition so they don’t have a chance.

[Rapscallion]

DC Statehood is perennial loser. It should fail again. DC has a very corrrupt political class. Its government is corrupt.

[Rurudyne]

Return the rest of D.C. to Virginia. Maryland has its bit.

Then move the seat of government to Alaska above the Arctic circle.

[goldstategop]

DOA in the Senate. Like Republicans would happily give the Democrats two new US Senate seats in perpetuity? Dream on.

[jazusamo]

Me too. I think it’s unlikely now that it has a chance but the Rats will keep trying should they ever control the three branches again.

[Jim Noble]

"no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.

It seems to me that since Congress is the government of DC, that an organic act creating this "state" would arise from Congress petitioning itself.

Allowing this would be as unwise as allowing Congress to award itself 3 electoral votes in 1960.

[dsrtsage]

I wonder if their enthusiasm would change if walk away really took off

[flamberge]

Not this S%^$ again!

Rust never sleeps.

[alloysteel]

The District of Columbia only makes a decent sized COUNTY, and is far from being a reasonably sized state.

Now, if some enterprising politician wants to widen the circle a little bit, and take the surrounding collar counties in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, then include THAT area, they might have the nucleus of a decent sized state. But DC alone?

Unh-unh.

Most pf the rest of Virginia would be HAPPY to be rid of that part of the state that borders on the Potomac, and return to their cherished ways of patrician independence from the DC monstrosity,

[Lurkinanloomin]

No to DC statehood, No to Puerto Rican statehood.

[jazusamo]

Bump!

[FLT-bird]

Denied.

[Gay State Conservative]

Would statehood have to be approved in the same way a Constitutional Amendment is approved? I suppose I could look it up but I'm lazy.If the process is the same I absolutely can't see 38 states saying “yes”.

[Gay State Conservative]

The only reason I don't support Puerto Rican independence is because China would offer them a few billion dollars and pick it up as a naval base.Kinda like what they're doing now in Africa.

[jazusamo]

The article states it would more than likely require a Constitutional Amendment.

[KC_Conspirator]

You are correct on all accounts.

[MinorityRepublican]

Virginia already got their part back. It is now Arlington. Rest of it belongs to Maryland except for federal buildings.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I think a much better idea would be for the federal government to use eminent domain of the entire district. Then they could bulldoze the slums, totally rebuild the decrepit infrastructure, and build a commercial district that would be only leased to businesses.

Other than VIP and embassy vehicles, most traffic would be by public transport. A back route for delivery trucks would be out of the way.

Its land area is only 61 square miles.

[shanover]

Everything besides Federal property needs to just be split up between Maryland and Virginia. It’s tough to split up a sh*thole but they own it.