see url:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-passes-dc-statehood-bill-to-make-district-51st-state
see full report....Couldn't be anything to do with voter suppression by
the GOP and the prevention of US citizens being entitled to have
representation as an individual state going to the Democrats...could
it? Not that it is gonna happen anyway...Got to be whiter than white to
get representation...đ
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The divided House Thursday passed legislation to make Washington, D.C.,
the 51st state and to grant its more than 700,000 residents full
representation in Congress.
The strictly party-line vote in the House was 216 to 208, with all
Republicans rejecting the statehood bill, dubbed H.R. 51. The
legislation has support from President Biden but faces long odds of
passing in the 50-50 split Senate.
Debate over statehood got particularly heated on the House floor
Thursday when New York Democrat Rep. Mondaire Jones accused certain
Republicans of being against D.C. statehood because the district was not
White enough in their minds to qualify for self-rule.
"I have had enough of my colleagues' racist insinuations that somehow
that people of Washington, D.C., are incapable or even unworthy of our
democracy," Jones said in a floor speech that drew a quick rebuke from
Republicans. "One Senate Republican said that D.C. wouldn't be a
'well-rounded, working-class state.' I had no idea there were so many
syllables in the word White."
D.C. is 46% Black and 46% White, according to 2019 Census estimates.
Jones continued: "One of my House Republican colleagues said that D.C.
shouldn't be a state because the district doesn't have a landfill. My
goodness, with all the racist trash my colleagues have brought to this
debate, I can see why they're worried about having a place to put it."
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