D.C. Statehood Activists Looking Toward GOP Congress
If anyone understands what a “grungy game” politics can be, it’s Capitol Hill staffers.
DC Council Looks to Streamline Statehood Efforts
In the four decades since Home Rule, elected officials in the District of Columbia have created four different commissions aimed at making the city the 51st state. Looking at the current condition of those panels, it might be obvious why the flag only has 50 stars.
Norton Says First Senate Hearing in Twenty Years Takes DC Statehood to a New Level
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that Senator Thomas Carper’s (D-DE) announcement of the first District of Columbia statehood hearing in more than two decades highlights “a season of unusual progress for D.C. statehood.” Senator Carper, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is one of the cosponsors of the Senate companion bill to Norton’s D.C. statehood bill, the New Columbia Admission Act.