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dawg day

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2. Maybe a rule getting rid of the filibuster?
Mon Jun 8, 2020, 11:59 AM
Jun 2020

That would be a good first step.

I'd love to make DC and PR states. Two more blue states! Plus, you know, it's only fair because both of them have far more American citizens than Wyoming and Alaska.

Here's the procedure:
In most cases, the organized government of a territory made known the sentiment of its population in favor of statehood, usually by referendum. Congress then directed that government to organize a constitutional convention to write a state constitution. Upon acceptance of that constitution, by the people of the territory and then by Congress, Congress would adopt a joint resolution granting statehood and the President would issue a proclamation announcing that a new state has been added to the Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admission_to_the_Union#:~:text=New%20States%20may%20be%20admitted,as%20well%20as%20of%20the

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