Thanks to Richard Winger of Ballot Access News for this post.
On October 27, the Washington, D.C. City Council held hearings on PR 21-302, which would authorize the City government to launch a multi-media and petition campaign for statehood for the District of Columbia. The bill is co-sponsored by a majority of members of the council, so it is likely to pass. The lead author is Councilmember Vincent Orange.
Bills are introduced in every session of Congress for Statehood. These bills always specify that the name of the state would be New Columbia. The current bill, by Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, the non-voting representative for D.C. in the House, is HR 317. It has 125 co-sponsors, all of them Democrats.
Some critics claim the bill is unconstitutional, because there are certain parts of the U.S. Constitution that seem to imply that D.C. can’t be a state. On the other hand, critics of the status quo argue that the United States is the only nation in the world in which adult citizens in the national capital have no voting representation in the national legislature.
CLICK HERE to read a story by Andrew Giambrone on Washington CityPaper.
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