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The city held its first presidential election in 1964, voting overwhelmingly for the sitting president Lyndon B. Johnson over Barry Goldwater, a Republican senator from Arizona who’d voted ...
Mar 18, 2022 · If passed by the Senate and signed into law by the president, it would give voters in our nation’s capital the ability to participate fully in our democracy by admitting “Washington, Douglass Commonwealth,” as the 51st state. What are the origins of DC’s lack of full voting representation?
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Mar 19, 2021 · The main reason why Republicans oppose it today is that it would add two seats in the Senate, as well as one in the House, all of which would probably be held by Democrats (since 1964, when...
Apr 23, 2021 · This issue is not going away, however. 2021 is the second consecutive year House Democrats have voted to make DC a state. Why do supporters think DC should be a state?
Mar 22, 2021 · However in January 2021, after the Democrats took control of the White House and Senate, Democrats reintroduced legislation to make D.C. a state once again. The bill was introduced by nonvoting delegate to the House, Eleanor Holmes Norton , who would have no say in its passage.
Apr 15, 2016 · By Tessa Berenson. April 15, 2016 1:57 PM EDT. W ith Washington, D.C.’s mayor calling for a November vote on statehood, it raises the question, why wasn’t the nation’s capital made a state...
Jul 9, 2020 · On June 26, 2020, the House of Representatives passed a bill called “H.R. 51” that would make Washington, D.C. the 51st state. Though the bill will likely not pass the Senate, the fact...
