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Title: House Will Vote on Whether to Make Washington D.C. a State Tuesday
Post by: mystery-ak on April 16, 2021, 03:32:04 pm
House Will Vote on Whether to Make Washington D.C. a State Tuesday

Wendell Husebo 16 Apr 2021

The House of Representatives will vote Tuesday on whether to make Washington, D.C., a State.


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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/16/house-will-vote-make-washington-state-tuesday/
The House Oversight Committee, chaired by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), voted the bill, H.R. 51, out of committee by a vote of 25-19 to create D.C. statehood Wednesday.
Title: Re: House Will Vote on Whether to Make Washington D.C. a State Tuesday
Post by: Wingnut on April 16, 2021, 03:43:23 pm
Whatever makes the Rats feel good. 
Title: Re: House Will Vote on Whether to Make Washington D.C. a State Tuesday
Post by: Hoodat on April 16, 2021, 03:44:39 pm
When Republicans are in control of the House, Democrats demand that committee seats be awarded to each party based on their overall ratio.  Democrats currently control 50.7% of House seats.  Thus by the Democrat minority standard, the party split for this 44-member committee should be 22.3 Democrat and 21.7 Republican.   Yet when Democrats are in the majority, this standard gets scrapped.  The current split is 24 Democrat, 20 Republican.

When are Republicans going to grow a pair and start treating Democrats the same way Democrats treat them when the GOP is in the minority?
Title: Re: House Will Vote on Whether to Make Washington D.C. a State Tuesday
Post by: IsailedawayfromFR on April 16, 2021, 03:57:35 pm
Completely unconstitutional as the constitution declares DC to be administered under Congress, so how can Congress administer a state?

If the argument is the lack of representation of DC citizens in the Senate, cede those portions of DC back to Maryland and Virginia where those citizens live and presto, they have representation.
Title: Re: House Will Vote on Whether to Make Washington D.C. a State Tuesday
Post by: Bigun on April 16, 2021, 04:17:27 pm
They would need to amend the Constitution first.  IF we still had a rule of law that is!
Title: Re: House Will Vote on Whether to Make Washington D.C. a State Tuesday
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on April 16, 2021, 04:24:43 pm
Let's start a pool ... How long will it take the 7 judicial dwarfs to refuse to hear this case?
Title: Re: House Will Vote on Whether to Make Washington D.C. a State Tuesday
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 16, 2021, 04:54:42 pm
Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on April 16, 2021, 04:24:43 pm
Let's start a pool ... How long will it take the 7 judicial dwarfs to refuse to hear this case?

About 6 months, as soon as it's Moot.
Title: Re: House Will Vote on Whether to Make Washington D.C. a State Tuesday
Post by: Hoodat on April 16, 2021, 05:02:06 pm
Quote from: IsailedawayfromFR on April 16, 2021, 03:57:35 pm
If the argument is the lack of representation of DC citizens in the Senate, cede those portions of DC back to Maryland and Virginia where those citizens live and presto, they have representation.

The argument is that Democrats need two more Senate votes, 1 more House vote, and three more electoral votes to help them maintain power.
Title: Re: House Will Vote on Whether to Make Washington D.C. a State Tuesday
Post by: IsailedawayfromFR on April 16, 2021, 06:43:57 pm
Quote from: Hoodat on April 16, 2021, 05:02:06 pm
The argument is that Democrats need two more Senate votes, 1 more House vote, and three more electoral votes to help them maintain power.
Here's my argument to counter:

Texas splits into 5 states to provide 8 more Senators, as provided by its entry into the Union.

Checkmate.