House passes bill to make Washington DC the 51st state

(cnbc.com/2020/06/26/house-passes-bill-to-make-washington-dc-the-51st-state.html)

>House Democrats passed a bill Friday to make Washington, D.C., the 51st U.S. state, a historic move unlikely to gain traction in the Republican-held Senate.

The chamber approved it by a 232-180 vote.

The legislation would give Washington residents, who have long decried the fact that they pay federal taxes but have no voting representation in Congress, one House member and two senators. A smaller area encompassing the White House, U.S. Capitol, and other federal buildings and monuments would remain under U.S. oversight.

Washington’s longtime nonvoting House delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced the bill, which would change the name of the district to the state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth. In advocating for the legislation Friday, she noted that D.C.’s population of about 700,000 is larger than that of Wyoming or Vermont, and that the district pays more federal taxes than 22 states.
>“As we approach July 4th, it is long past time to apply the nation’s oldest slogan, ‘no taxation without representation,’ and the principle of consent of the governed to District of Colu

But if Democrats can win control of the White House and Senate in November, D.C. could get another shot at becoming a state next year. mbia residents,” Norton said.

>“DC will never be a state,” the president told the New York Post in May. “You mean District of Columbia, a state? Why? So we can have two more Democratic — Democrat senators and five more congressmen? No thank you. That’ll never happen.” (Washington would only have one House member, not five as Trump said.)

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there has to be a better solution to this

It will all end soon.

Population 700,000. 1/3 non Hispanic white. If this ever happens DC will have the absolute worst representatives in all of Congress. Bet on it.

What a surprise, the 80% communist city is pushing for statehood just in time to warp the electoral college. If this shit makes it through the senate then our legal system is null and fucking void.

And just like that, VA flipped red.

Better solution is 1 senator per sq acre. This ensures local issues have representatives.

Reabsorb it into MD if they care that badly.

Our founding fathers expressly wanted Washington D.C. to be a neutral area

still has to pass the senate, still has to be signed off by Trump or go for a second round of house and senate with 2/3 vote, verdict, I'm thinking no.

Commies hate the founding fathers and everything that they wanted.

Your founding fathers were dumb as hell racist pieces of shit.

They're intentionally going to hold it (e.g. not deliver it to the Senate for voting) until after the election.

the retards in VA voting for democrats will still be in VA voting for democrats
the only thing this would do is give the democrats two more guaranteed Senators and 1+ guaranteed House seat
sage making DC a state in all fields

PR IS NEXT THAN CUBA THEN CANADA THAN MEXICO THEN UK

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And what will the 52nd state be? PR?

next year would be a new session of congress, I dont think a bill passed in this one would automatically 'carry over" to the next one

Then get the fuck out of america

You don't know your father.

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This.

Remember who insults you with a nigger melon flag.

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I swear half the bills these faggots push are vote-grabs. Do they actually DO anything for the country? All I ever see is more attempts at power consolidation.

There is. We need to extend voting house representation based on population to all us territories. Then we give an elector in the electoral college for these representatives. This would give representation in federal government for all of America (and in presidential election) while maintaining a point to having the senate.

As an actual black American, you nasty fucking white liberal LARPing as us, FUCK YOU. The Founding Fathers were far better men than you or your trap girlfriend's boyfriend will ever be.
>Semper Fi
>WWG1WGA

They were racist but they were not dumb, your people can’t even comprehend tomorrow they made a governmental system that thrived for centuries. Until your people just fucked it all up

Damn, that's a mullet and a half.

Mexico, after the election.

Then leave, nigger. NO ONE wants niggers.

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based and thanks for not being another nigger buddy

none of this matters because mcconnell won’t even let it come to vote
everyone here acting like the world is over is a paid shill pretending not to know how the government works

Fuck off. Christ, John Adams alone had more intellectual prowess in his taint then you'd acquire in 100 lifetimes.

Wanna be a cunt and hate the founders? Go right ahead. Changes nothing. But calling them "dumb" says far more about you then you fucking donut.

I think it's a good idea, in a way, but I think Puerto Rico should be the 51st State still. I'm all for making new States.

this, its just another election year stunt that won't go anywhere

Move the capital and watch their economy go down the shitter

Thats a killer mullet! If he didn't have a slave owning great great grandfather, I'd vote.

It's unconstitutional. The federal government doesn't get a vote. Anyone who works for the federal government should not get to vote

>change the name of the district to the state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth
Brillia

The founding fathers were brilliant. It's the modern politicians who ruined it by doing shit like giving women the right to vote when the founding fathers deliberately left it out for obvious reasons. They knew what would happen.

Ahh.., I understand what you mean now. I’m way too stoned for /pol I’m going to fallout 4 instead.
I am seeing communists coming out of the walls.

>She noted that D.C.’s population of about 700,000 is larger than that of Wyoming or Vermont.

Wyoming and Vermont shouldn't be states either. They are much too small. And there should only be one Dakota.

So give two Senators to a place smaller than some Texas ranches?

As trump i would support this but it return splitting california up too because most of the state does not feel represented from these few commie cities so either both pass or non.

So my 5 acre property get's 5 senators?

If you want representation, move out of D.C.

Mexico has a D.F. (Distrito Federal) too.

And the MD panhandle can go to PA, WV and VA if they'd like

Fuck Puerto Rico. It should be independent and all of those bastards sent home.
Hawaii only gets to stay a State because of its strategic value.

>let’s give two senators to a place that’s not even 70 square miles.
This will go over well
Still voting for trump

They want the extra votes, split up California then north and south, the spics and bugmen can take the south

Every city over a threshold population (~5 million) should have separate electoral votes from their host state. Debate me or prove me wrong. You'll lose. It's so common sense it makes me sick that it's not even talked about.

the capitol shouldn't even have residents

>Semper Fi
Amen Black brother
Fuck the left

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The ultimate goal is to place 2 additional Democrats in permanently in the Senate. There is no hope of the GOP ever winning those Senate seats.

With the addition of DC as a state that would make the Senate 102 seats -- tie votes would be 51-51 and a simple majority would be 53 votes. Simple majority is also known as 'the nuclear option' to close debate under the so-called Reid Rule.

Democrats, even in the minority with 49 seats, would only need to pull 2 or 3 weak Republicans over to defeat legislation.

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I thought the whole point of creating DC was to make it neutral ground?

that's how the Senate works....

I like this solution

So they want to make a district a state?

Kind of like you right now

The constitution forbids DC from being a state

Doa in the Senate so who cares?

NO NO NO NO NO GOD DAMN IT. THIS IS THE EXACT FUCKING OPPOSITE OF WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN. EVERY FUCKING METROPOLITAN AREA NEEDS TO BE FORCED KICKING AND SCREAMING TO BECOME A DISTRICT. THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT. ITS FUEDALISM. I WILL NOT BE TOLD WHAT TO DO BY SHITSKIN WOMEN LIVING IN INSECT COLONIES

Shut up nig, no one wants you here but fags, mutts, and race traitors. Leave if everything about this nation sucks to you. Go to Africa where you can get cannibalized by Liberian warlords faggot. See how much you’ll miss the white man putting up with your retard low iq level shit then.

smart as hell racist pieces of civilization

Wait is DC not a part of america or something?

this

Yeah, but they owned slaves so we have to burn the whole thing down now.

The founding fathers were literally the smartest collection of humans to ever exist. Each one had their own personal failings but as a collective they were godly.

Not a state. No protection.
Constitution doesnt apply.
Not good for crooks.
No protection from the law. No rights.

Making it a state gives crooks a right to fair trial. Not good.