No thank you. 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. "Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, hailed the vote as a "watershed moment" in ending what she called the "second-class citizenship of D.C. residents" and granting them the right to vote. A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers. Later acts of Congress granted greater self-rule to the district, and the 23rd Amendment gave residents the ability to vote in presidential contests. Trump And The Senate Say No The Democrats who control the House want to make a political point with a vote to make the District of Columbia the 51st state… "The Senate currently is split 53-47, the majority held by Republicans, and adding two D.C. senators would cut into the GOP advantage in the chamber.The Constitution gives Congress the ability to set its own conditions for admitting a state, but is vague on the subject of Washington.Under the Admission Clause, "New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union," and Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution allows Congress to create a "District (not exceeding ten miles square)" to become the seat of government.Initially, Congress was given complete control over the district's legislation out of fears that a single state could wield too much power over the federal government. Bowser, the city's mayor has advocated for statehood as a way to exert the district's control over its own policing matters. Republicans say giving the district statehood would give too much power to the capital and would cause constitutional issues.The Trump administration's announcement of its planned veto for the bill called statehood "unconstitutional" because of the logistical problems in carving out land for the state and allotting it congressional representation. "They plan to make the District of Columbia a state—that’d give them two new Democratic senators—Puerto Rico a state, that would give them two more new Democratic senators," McConnell said in an interview with Fox News' Laura Ingraham last year. The 51st State (also known as Formula 51) is a 2001 British/Canadian action comedy film directed by Ronny Yu, written by Stel Pavlou, and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer, Ricky Tomlinson, Sean Pertwee, Rhys Ifans, Stephen Walters and Meat Loaf. 51," passed on a mostly party-line vote of 232-180. Democrats in the House voted Friday to make portions of Washington, DC, the 51st US state, which is historic because it's the furthest such a measure has … "This goes beyond just race. Three soldiers struggle to readjust to life at home after returning home from a lengthy tour in Iraq. This goes to the fundamental issue of fair representation for all citizens of the United States. In a Friday press conference, Pelosi touted Friday’s vote as a move “long overdue” that would offer “justice” to the people living in D.C., allowing them equality to Americans across the country.“The fact is, people in the District of Columbia pay taxes, fight our wars, risk their lives for our democracy. One Democrat, Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota, voted against it. A few things need to happen, including a Democratic political sweep. "Advocates of statehood say it's a long-overdue change for a city that lacks any voting representation in Congress. "You mean District of Columbia, a state? It now moves to the Senate, where Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has voiced opposition to the measure. An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. The district's voters chose Hillary Clinton by an overwhelming margin in 2016, and Norton, the District's Democratic member of Congress, has served since 1991."D.C.

A District Attorney has his life turned upside down when he's involved in a hit and run and another man is arrested for his crime and charged with murder. The chamber approved it … WASHINGTON – The Democratic-led House of Representatives passed a bill Friday that would make Washington, D.C., the 51st state, though Republicans and the White House have voiced their opposition to the measure. A statehood bill came up for a vote in 1993, but failed in the House. Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., argued that it was a "grave injustice" that residents of the district did not have full representation despite mass African-American migration to the district in the mid-20th century in pursuit of economic opportunity that they could not otherwise obtain in the segregated South.

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