D.C. residents deserve to have representation in Congress. They pay taxes like everyone else. It is beyond past time.
In the coming days, the House will vote on, and likely pass, H.R. 51, a bill that would make Washington D.C. the 51st state. The bill has 200 co-sponsors and was introduced by Eleanor Holmes Norton, the Democrat who has repped D.C. for nearly 30 years.https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/democrats-push-to-make-washington-dc-the-fifty-first-state …
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@senatemajldr will never allow it to come to the floor. It is essential that Dems not only keep the House (and expand it) in 2020, but retake the Senate in large numbers, and of course win the Presidency. Make it so, everyone!
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*Stares in Puerto Rican
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I'm for PR self-determination and support all their efforts for freedom and even independence if they decide that. but a lot of folks there do not want Statehood and they seem to never support us in DC which is frustrating. We should move forward together
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Hope they do the same for Puerto Rico.
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Until recently, Puerto Ricans voted to maintain their status as Commonwealth. Congress can't arbitrarily make them a state. In June 2018, Rep. Jenniffer González (Puerto Rixo) filed a bill that would pave the way for Puerto Rico to become a state in 2021 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statehood_movement_in_Puerto_Rico …
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What is Puerto Rico’s status?
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Does Puerto Rico want to be a state? I’ve read mixed signals
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Can you combine it with other areas like Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the Mariana Islands?
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PR should be it’s own separate state IMO. There’s also a movement to combine Guam and NMI into the state of Pacifica
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