House passes bill that would grant DC statehood

The legislation now faces an uphill fight in the Senate, where it is unlikely to get enough Republican support to clear a 60-vote threshold for passage.It's unclear whether even every Senate Democrat would support the measure. Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia indicated on Thursday that he is undecided on the DC statehood bill."I got so many things on my plate that I haven't even gotten to that yet," he told CNN when asked if he supports it.

C. Admission Act -- last year in a historic vote that marked the first time either chamber of Congress had advanced a DC statehood measure. But it did not advance in the Senate, which was controlled by a Republican majority at the time."Let's be very clear what HR 51 is all about: It's all about creating two new Democrat US Senate seats," GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky said during a committee markup of the bill last week.

smerconish Racism !! Is that the best you can do, is that all you got. A person who yells or accuses racism is a Racist . DC IS NUETRAL TERRITORY FOR A REASON. How can you call the swamp a state ? DC residence can vote anyhow.

smerconish Thats all they have is the racist card, thank God for Joe Manchin!

smerconish What the heck? Everything is racist in today’s social regression, so the term racist has lost any meaning or impact with the general population. It takes a constitutional amendment. Democrats need to stop trying to circumvent the legal process with political manipulation!

smerconish The nations capital should not be a state. Take the non federal part of the city and absorb it back into Maryland.

MondaireJones smerconish When black people want something that nobody else wants it's ALWAYS 'racism' that keeps blacks from getting what they want. Well, the taxpayer wants WELFARE REFORM and it is systemically racist to allow black people to continually wallow in the mire that is welfare subsistence.

smerconish Jones is a race baiter, he makes real black ppl who work hard and know what real racism looks like bad. I don't wanna hear his made up garbae

smerconish It's a dirty trick for power, and trying to use race to do it. Nothing less.

MondaireJones smerconish Washington DC was specifically laid out to not to be a state, but a federal district, so that no one state could claim to hold the nations capital. If you don’t like the laws regarding life in a federal district your free to move from our nation’s capital any time.

smerconish It’s in the Constitution that DC can’t be a state. Don’t like it? Write a constitutional amendment. The fact is DC was never ment to be a state or a place people were ment to live in🤷‍♂️

smerconish It’s a city. How can a city become a state? Would make more sense to make it part of an existing state. Like Virginia or Maryland. Why is that too hard to figure out?

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smerconish CNN Stop the race baiting. The initiative is clearly a Democrat powergrab. If not, why dont you support the city of Washington DC merging with an adjoining existing state? propaganda ScamAlert CNNExposed

smerconish Taxation without representation should not be allowed.

smerconish He needs to read the Constitution and go back to High School and take Civics. The Constitution obvisously is keeping the seat of our Nation separate from the states. That's what the founding fathers wanted. 75% to 25% just indicates to me how uneducated our Nation is on Civics.

smerconish Rep. Jones is Right On. The only reason the Repubs. oppose the statehood of DC is that they know that would most likely result in 2 additional Democratic Senate seats and House seats because's the majority of the people are people of color, and the same is true of Puerto Rico.

smerconish After Trump you ultra liberal news , because he didn’t like you and do not have to be go bk to neutral. Fox is ultra right wing news.

smerconish I don't appreciate being called a racist when I understand that the Constitution explicitly disallows for the ground that the capital/capitol stands on to BE a part of any state, and for good reason. Statehood shouldn't be the automatic answer to a very real problem.

smerconish So many advanced societies require id to vote. So what are you afraid of?

smerconish DC should be the 51st state (and PR the 52nd) but should not be named for anyone. Call it Columbia or something similar

smerconish When in doubt cry racism

smerconish ABOLISH POLICE ABOLISH ICE AND IF RACIST IGNORANT FOLKS DON’T LIKE IT THEN THEY GO BACK HOME AND SIT WITH THUMBS UP THEIR OWN ASSES FOR ALL I CARE ALL COPS TURN IN THEM BADGES AND GUNS YOU ALL FIRED

smerconish To the point that this is hypocrisy by D’s b/c in ‘93 D’s voted the other way, it must be emphasized how much R’s have done to power grab and gerrymander to ensure their power. It’s been less than 20 years but times change. It’s not hypocrisy if democracy survival is at stake.

smerconish Statehood for D.C. is blatantly unconstitutional.

DC should be a state. It's no accident that one of the worst run cities is run by the federal government.

This is ridiculous. America we have more important things to do like trying to survive this covid physically, emotionally, and financially. DC becoming a state is not helping our country be united, its just another way for democracy to fade away.

How about a compromise? The new state (The Great State of Confusion), gets one Democratic Senator and one Republican Senator

'Uphill struggle', mate ? 🧐🤠

Everyone in the white house is hitting the crack pipe like hunter Biden.

How is it possible that a city has no state attached to it? Sounds Dumb

Ignorant. JoeBiden. FoxNews FakeNews. If forefathers didnt want a Capitol of the USA they wouldnt have designated one. Where does the ruination of the Founding Fathers end?

Let's do it!!

I love that One America News has the integrity to keep the focus on the 2020 Election Fraud. Thank you for being true journalist.

Of they want to be a state return the land to Virginia.. it's unconstitutional for DC to be a solo state

Just allow them to rejoin Maryland.

Sounds legit, now Texas Oklahoma Kansas Nebraska south Dakota North Dakota Wyoming Montana Colorado Iowa etc..... create your own conservative states cutting out the liberal cities. U want to play, let’s make a game out of it!

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Since this is an idea by the terrorist group BLM, it is a terrible idea unless it has something to do with all those black prostitutes they have in D.C.

A state the size of a middle city.

Trying to steal two more senate seats Eh?

Because the “pro-America” Republicans don’t like passing laws/bills that actually HELP America.

puerto Rico & other places deserve statehood & more!

Let’s get Puerto Rico and the other territories in as states

Stupid is, Stupid does. Idiots!! How about do something really useful......like get off the air!!

Wow ! Damm ! No representation . HR 51 DC will be represented !

Where it will die an ugly death.

This is why Congress is for the children. Too bad they can't actually find something beneficial to do.

Just put it back into the States it came from. City States are a bad idea...

Republican voters think democracy is a mean conspiracy of Democrats. That's the level where we are now...

DC deserves statehood a long time ago....this is the right step in the right direction joebiden KamalaHarris

No statehood for a Federal District. Statehood for Puerto Rico!

🤦‍♂️. Puerto Rico should be a state first.

Um isnt there more to worry about . Priorities of these people are tottaly screwed up.

If you so this, then you might as well move Congress back too Philadelphia.

Is this the 51st attempt?

It is called -- doing your job. Now we are going to hear Republicans objections and not any constructive ideas.

Hurray! Hope it will pass!

the insurrection continues by the dems

Just BS politics for the Dems to call everyone a racist if you disagree!

Just split it based on the Potomic and stop waisting tax dollars on nonsense.

Mk stood there 4 what

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