U.S. House approves bill granting Washington D.C. statehood
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday approved a legislation granting statehood to Washington, D.C. for the first time on Capitol Hill after it was created more than 200 years ago.
The bill was passed on a highly partisan vote of 232-180 in the Democrats-led House.
Collin Peterson from midwest state Minnesota was the only Democrat to vote against the bill. All House Republicans opposed it and independent lawmaker Justin Amash of Michigan also voted no.
The White House and Republicans who control the Senate have already voiced their opposition to the measure, making the House vote largely symbolic.
Introduced by D.C.’s nonvoting House member Eleanor Holmes Norton, the bill would shrink the country’s capital city to a small area encompassing the White House, Capitol buildings, Supreme Court, and other federal buildings along the National Mall.
The rest of the city would become the 51st U.S. state, named the Washington, Douglass Commonwealth after abolitionist Frederick Douglass, according to the bill.
With the statehood, the bill would grant D.C. two senators and make the existing sole House representative a voting member.
DC statehood will NEVER happen in the Senate and even if it did 2/3rds of the US States legislatures would need to approve the act as well….just more liberals (AKA Democrats (Communist Party USA)( efforts trying to fan the racial flames in America.
The US Constitution does not permit the Seat of the Federal Government to be located in any State. To change that requires a constitutional amendment. which means 2/3 of the House, 2/3 of the Senate and 3/4 of the States have to approve it. Will not happen. This is nothing more than mental masturbation by the Socialist Democrat Party.
State or not, D.C. needs an enema.