DCStatehood
A bill that would grant the District of Columbia statehood has passed through House committee and will get a vote on the floor soon. The committee voted along party lines 25 to 19 and signaled that the bill could be voted on as soon as next week. “The United States is a republic, but its capital lacks full representation. The United States is the only democratic country that denies both voting rights in the national legislature and local self-government to the people of its capital. That is wrong. It violates everything we stand for as Americans,” said House Oversight committee Chair Carolyn M...
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The approximately 700,000 residents of the District of Columbia do not have Congressional representation like all other Americans. While D.C. statehood has been debated several times in recent years, new congressional hearings this week show that the debate will be extremely contentious. “Congress can no longer allow D.C. residents to be sidelined in the democratic process, watching as Congress votes on matters that affect the nation with no say of their own, or watching as Congress votes to overturn the laws of the duly elected D.C. Council with no say of their own,” Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norto...
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