indicated that he would veto the legislation if it reached the Oval Office, saying that the District “will never be a state."
“The constitutional framers, the Federalist Papers, nobody thought that states would be admitted on the basis of their politics, rather they would be admitted on the basic premise of their citizenship as Americans, and to consider other non-germane items in casting your vote is un-American,” he added.
“For the first time, statehood will put an end to our oldest slogan: ‘taxation without representation,’” Holmes Norton, D-D.C., said at a recent press conference. “To crown that denial, D.C. residents pay the highest federal taxes per capita without equal representation. Coming in this, the third century of our nation, however, statehood means much more to us than dollars and cents. Statehood is priceless. Statehood assures that living in our nation’s capital is about pride, not prejudice.
Police disperse protesters near the White House on June 1, 2020 as demonstrations against George Floyd's death continued. That notion stands at odds with a recent tweet from Texas Republican Rep. Kevin Brady, who seemed to conflate the district with the entirety of the nation’s government, by implying that D.C. statehood would be the equivalent of giving “‘Big Government’ its own state.”
If DC voted Republican this would not be happening.
At all costs.... Must defeat Trump... At all costs... Orange man bad...
Democrats desperate for votes
Toad of Toad Hall will make sure they are dead on arrival.
Pandering...
This is code for: 'We want more power.' DesperateDemocrats
No one is forced to stay in a district they feel disenfranchised in. As always, if you don't like move. Nancy wants two more Senate seats for 700,000 people who are mostly Democrats in DC. She's too drunk to know people aren't that stupid. DesperateDemocrats
You all know that isn't going any where...you don't have enough taxes to support DC without federal funds which you only get because its ALL federal land
If the land is not required for federal buisiness, return it to VA and MD.
They should just be absorbed by a neighboring state. Hell cities have larger populations than that.
I demand equal representation!
When does Puerto Rico get a chance?
Good idea. Name change?🏴🇨🇦
Again they don’t give a shit about the people. Only the senators they would gain. Will never happen.
What about Puerto Rico?
Going nowhere
People. Please crack open a few history books. I mean the level of ignorance on this platform is frightening and frankly nauseating.
Need those votes to win. Keep trying, Yancy.
Just make it part of Maryland.
If they do, will the White House have to move
Don't be confused...please make the simplest choice stand or kneel build or destroy security or riot law or crime work or unemployment prosperity or frustration justice or evil
Hahaha...such a scam. Fuck DC hard.
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DC has no territorial govt. or constitution. it is the territorial govt. that has to initiate the admission process. not Congress. Besides this is just Democrats playing games to take the Senate in the election. It aint going nowhere.
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Yes yes.
The Dems really care about the citizens of DC...does anybody believe that?
The reason they want to make it a state is for more democratic votes in the law making process.
Everything Democrats do is Historical, have you notice. They do NOTHING for the Nation but what they propose is Historical. REALLY? Blocking legislation is what Democrats do best. They always stick together to do NOTHING.
Lol democrats are PANICKING
Bet they would have a different position if DC wasn't full of ignorant progressive dem voters.
Does everyone not see that everything has been about taking on Donald Trump? Fake impeachment, plague, Democrats rioting and burning down this country, now making DC a state Americans cannot be that dumb
DC statehood has no chance of passing the Senate or a Veto. Pelosi's political posturing is just pissin' in the wind. D'rats can do something worthwhile such as calling off their Antifa and BLM dogs, and funding a militia to quell the murdering looters.
And what about Puerto Rico? If there was ever a time to give them the the full support of statehood it would be now. The antiquated designation of being a territory is no longer the best situation.
Taxation without representation. they should be a state. And while we’re at it, we need a new flag. Time for change.
It will never become a State as much as I would like to see it. They, IMO, should either join Maryland or VA for statehood recognition. Is that A dumb idea?
What a waste of time. How about you pass a bill to help Americans. Dimwits.
Duality Governs The Universe
Great, now do Puerto Rico, Guam, Samoa, and Virgin Islands.
Never gonna happen.
I am so Disgusted at Nancy Pelosi and the others they are such as.... kissers. People wake up they are just Pandering to you for your votes. Then they will do nothing. They have a history. Look it up. Oh that is if you can find a history book that is not edited by liberals
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The constitutionally ignorant soon to be disappointed. This is a useless stunt.
DC needs to be a State too DC
Then disperse all Federal jobs equally among all 50 states. No state should have all the Federal jobs. Fair is fair.
State of DC, an absolute imperative.
they are desperate to take control of the senate and whitehouse because if not the arrests are going to be huge
See Federalist 45. People remain uneducated about WHY the Founding Fathers set it up this way. But then again, the Dems wish to destroy the Constitution, so what else is new.
That is going nowhere
Now Puerto Rico, too.
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desperate for electoral votes and 2 more DNC shill senators. never going to happen!!!!!!! make DC Rome, MD again!!!
Taxation without representation is illegal.
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