House Democrats to vote next week on DC statehood

[RandySF]

House Democratic leaders are racing ahead with legislation to grant statehood to Washington, D.C., scheduling a June 26 vote on the historic — and highly controversial — bill, which will arrive amid the heightened calls for black empowerment that have followed the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota.

In February, the House Oversight and Government Reform panel had approved the proposal, marking the first time a D.C. statehood bill had won committee passage since 1993.

Democratic leaders are now seeking to tap into the undercurrent of national unrest that's followed the death of Floyd — an unarmed African American man killed last month at the hands of Minneapolis police — to pass a series of long sought reforms designed to combat racial disparities across a swath of cultural sectors.

Most immediately, Democrats are seeking to move criminal justice reforms aimed at reining in racial profiling and police brutality, a package also scheduled for a floor vote next week.



https://thehill.com/homenews/house/502922-house-democrats-to-vote-next-week-on-dc-statehood

[beachbumbob]

1. Symbolic vote, no chance to go anywhere. I would rather see

time spent actually going after the trump admin. Just saying

[BComplex]

2. Me 2

But it is past time for DC to be a State. We saw how trump tried to make DC his bitch for the photo op, and to run its police force, and inserting national guard troops. If DC had a governor, that wouldn't have happened. As a state, it would also get 2 senators.

[demosincebirth]

11. If it became a state would it have a mayor, too ?

[NewJeffCT]

4. they can do more than 1 thing at a time

unlike Moscow Mitch and the Senate

[Maven]

9. GOOD. Keep voting for it and bringing it up as a serious proposal until it's considered mainstream

That is what the right constantly does. We have GOT to start playing the game properly. We can't win if we never even bring up good policy because "it has no chance of passing".

[thucythucy]

3. This should absolutely be a priority.

The District has more residents than several red states, and yet has no vote in Congress and no power to influence presidential elections.

"Taxation without representation is tyranny." Which means DC residents have been living under tyranny since the inception of the Republic. It's about time this travesty was ended.

[BComplex]

13. I'm sure that's how DC residents feel about it, too.

And you're so right:

"The District has more residents than several red states, and yet has no vote in Congress and no power to influence presidential elections."

[Takket]

5. Puerto Rico should be on the statehood list too

There are 19 states with less population the PR. that is 38% of the Senate.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

6. love it

Totally agree....

it will amazing to watch the dip hole senators from Montana, the Dakota's and Idaho and Wyoming block it, because they don't want to see their power diluted.

A funny lack of awareness from out forefathers

[SoonerPride]

7. They should add two states during Biden's first year.

DC and PR both need statehood.

[Maeve]

8. Bigger population that Wyoming or Vermont

Almost as many as Alaska or North Dakota---taxation without representation?

[Retrograde]

10. By that criterion

New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago should also be states.

I'd rather see DC reduced to the core Federal buildings around the Capitol and the residential parts ceded back to Maryland.

[Yeehah]

12. Yeah, no.

Because those cities are already part of states.