Watch Live: House committee holds hearing on D.C. statehood

The House Committee on Oversight and Reform is holding a hearing Monday on a bill to establish Washington, D.C. as the nation's 51st state, legislation that mirrors a bill that passed last year.

In January, Eleanor Holmes Norton, who represents the District in Congress as a non-voting delegate, reintroduced H.R. 51, which would create the state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth - named for Frederick Douglass. The measure would give D.C. two U.S. senators and a voting representative in the House. The House passed a bill to make D.C. a state last year by a vote of 232-180, but it died in the Republican-led Senate.