HR 51, to admit the District of Columbia as a state, has 201 co-sponsors. But HR 1965, to admit Puerto Rico as a state, only has one co-sponsor.
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Edited By Richard Winger
HR 51, to admit the District of Columbia as a state, has 201 co-sponsors. But HR 1965, to admit Puerto Rico as a state, only has one co-sponsor.
DC in 1-8 — NOT to have State HACKS messing with the FEDERAL USA govt.
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Uniform definition of Voter in ALL of USA —
DC and colony voters for Congress and Prez/VP
I wonder what would happen if Alberta applied?
I wonder if the 19 cities that have more people than the city of Washington will also be able to apply for statehood. It would only be fair.
If all of DC becomes a state, that state will have an unfair advantage in national politics because it houses the federal government. However, if only the civilian portions of DC become a state (without the Washington Mall area for example), then all they are is a city clamoring to become a state. That goes from being controversial to simply being laughable.
Retrocession is the proper course of action. I’m sure the residents of Batimore won’t like having their significant influence on Maryland’s state government in Annapolis challenged by an annexed city that’s larger than Baltimore, but in the end, that land really belongs to Maryland. The federal government took more land than it needed to form DC, and Washington’s citizens have been paying the price for that decision ever since.
The only reason the city of Washington, the state of Maryland, and the Democratic Party prefer statehood over retrocession is because they want Democrats to have a competitive advantage. Having two extra Democratic US Senators and a guaranteed Democratic US Representative is more important to them than allowing the residents of the city of Washington to have federal representation in Congress by rejoining the state they should never have been pulled away from.
How about banning anybody from residing / renting / occupying in a much smaller Devil City
— except, perhaps, Congress HACKS, Prez/VP HACKS and SCOTUS HACKS ???
How many square feet needed for the rented places for the HACKS – guarded by armies of rent-a-guards ???
Any State can NOT obstruct legal actions by the Feds – civil or military — State zoning, building codes, etc etc etc.
How about Guam? Virgin Islands? Conch Republic?