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House to vote to make Washington D.C. the 51st state
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Posted on 06/16/2020 2:07:27 PM PDT by Meatspace
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To: Sam Gamgee
The process for statehood is not outlined in the Constitution.
To: CatOwner
House D +15
Senate D +4
Biden 315 EV
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posted on
06/16/2020 2:46:57 PM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(Think like youÂ’re right, listen like youÂ’re wrong)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Uh, no. Best option is to eliminate private residences and build 535 homes for the congresscritters, part of the permanent (and no grandfather clause) term limits (three in the House, one in the Senate), the rest of the city being Smithsonian, gubmint offices, embassies/consulates, and hotels.
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posted on
06/16/2020 2:49:50 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Meatspace
The act of establishing DC as a State
requires a Constitutional Amendment, not simply a law passed by Congress.
Just one of many articles stating that very thing...
The Constitution and the District of Columbia March 22, 2007
Statehood is now the clear preference of District of Columbia voting-rights advocates, but the proposal has never excited much support in Congress and would, in any case, also require a constitutional amendment since an independent territory, subject to the ultimate authority of Congress, was a critical part of the Framers' original design for an indestructible federal union of indestructible states.
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posted on
06/16/2020 2:49:59 PM PDT
by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
To: Meatspace
Dead on arrival in the senate. We don’t need 2 more Dem senators or 4 if they toss in Puerto Rico.
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posted on
06/16/2020 2:50:30 PM PDT
by
chuckee
To: tallyhoe
You cant make a state from one city!!! And a small one at that. At least as far as population actually living within the district. And as the federal leviathan continuously grows, residential space is ever being gobbled up.
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posted on
06/16/2020 2:51:18 PM PDT
by
rhinohunter
(FAUCI MUST GO!!!)
To: Meatspace
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posted on
06/16/2020 2:51:21 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
To: Meatspace
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posted on
06/16/2020 2:52:01 PM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: tallyhoe
DC is only 68 square miles.
The smallest state, Rhode Island, is 1,212 square miles.
There is only one county is the U.S that is smaller than Washington DC! There are 3,141 counties on the U.S.
To: Meatspace
It’s a district for a reason.
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posted on
06/16/2020 2:53:03 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
To: I want the USA back
Unfortunately . ..many are stupid.
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posted on
06/16/2020 2:53:36 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
To: Meatspace
Only if they take NOVA and give them both the Maryland. Just let the good folks west of Germantown be part of WV.
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posted on
06/16/2020 2:53:41 PM PDT
by
3RIVRS
To: Meatspace
Make it a suburb of Maryland. Problem solved.
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posted on
06/16/2020 2:54:08 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
To: Cincinnatus.45-70
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posted on
06/16/2020 2:54:52 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
To: Meatspace
Only one frickin’ voting Representative in the House. That’s IT! DC was never meant to be an actual state, nor should it be, since it is a sort of neutral ground for the seat of the US government, IMO.
Oh, and drop ‘em to one E.C. vote, too. That 3 vote amendment to the Constitution was Statehood sold by the drink.
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posted on
06/16/2020 2:56:13 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
To: Meatspace
Never make it through the ammendment process
Just another act of show...
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posted on
06/16/2020 2:57:09 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: Meatspace
The dems have done this crap before.
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posted on
06/16/2020 2:57:35 PM PDT
by
ncalburt
(Gop DC Globalists)
To: Jim Noble
It wouldn’t surprise me, at least with the House and the Senate.
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posted on
06/16/2020 2:57:36 PM PDT
by
CatOwner
To: Army Air Corps
They had a chance in the first two years of “Obama”, but wasted their political clout on Obamacare.
To: Meatspace
Give everything except for Lafayette Park, the White House, the National Mall and the adjacent federal buildings (such as the Eisenhower Executive Office Building located just outside of the Mall) back to Maryland and Virginia. Approximately 40 acres of D.C. was given back to Virginia in the late 1840s, so there is precedent for it. The only residence remaining will be the White House. Problem solved.
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posted on
06/16/2020 3:04:01 PM PDT
by
Bubba_Leroy
(The Obamanation has ended!)
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