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Mar 22, 2021 · But the bill never saw the light of day in the Republican-controled U.S. Senate. 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.
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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...
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Jan 8, 2021 · The Senate has never voted on D.C. statehood, nor has a Senate committee. McConnell refused to bring the House legislation to a vote, but Schumer has pledged to try to move the legislation.
Apr 23, 2021 · Since the Senate operates with a requirement for a supermajority (60 senators) to enact legislation, Republicans can effectively block any moves by Democrats to make DC or Puerto Rico a...
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Washington, D.C. is the ancestral home of the Nacotchtank people, also known as Anacostans. After British colonists drove them out of their land, it became part of Maryland and Virginia. In 1790, both of these states ceded the territory to establish the District of Columbia as the capitalof the United States. At the time there were about 3,000 peop...
The 1870s system that denied D.C. residents the right vote for their own local government—as well as the congressional members and president who oversaw that government—stayed in place for nearly a century. During that time, D.C.’s Black population grew. In 1957, D.C. became the nation’s first predominantly-Black city. In 1970, the Black population...
Since 1980, D.C. has advocated for congressional representation through statehood. Activists and politicians have connected D.C.’s fight for representation to similar struggles in the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa. Like D.C. residents in 1960, the U.S. citizens who li...
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Jun 27, 2020 · There may not be a Republican-led Senate or Republican President next year, so you need to understand what’s going on here. Why do supporters think DC should be a state?
Mar 18, 2022 · While the Senate has not taken up the measure, there is significant GOP opposition there too — the Senate bill has only Democratic co-sponsors, and Republican senators criticized the bill in a June 2021 committee hearing, often in jarringly partisan terms.
