House to vote on DC statehood bill during week of April 19
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The House will vote on making Washington, D.C., the 51st state during the week of April 19, the district's non-voting representative in Congress announced Wednesday.
"The week of April 19th the House will take a historic step in righting the monumental wrong of denying the 712,000 federal taxpaying American citizens who live in the nation’s capital voting representation in Congress and self-government without congressional interference into local affairs," Norton said in a statement. The Democrat-led House passed D.C. statehood once before, but the legislation died in the GOP-controlled Senate last year. Norton expressed optimism that her legislation would pass again, despite the very slim Democratic majority now in the House.More Related News
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