Move for DC to become 51st state pushes for equal voting rights for the capital's residents. FMTNews USHouse Congress Washington US
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says DC residents ‘have been denied their right to fully participate in democracy’.
“Today, we will bring our nation closer to the founding ideals that all are created equal and all deserve a say in our democracy.” “Congress has two choices: it can continue to exercise undemocratic autocratic authority over” Washington, “or Congress can live up to this nation’s promise and ideals and pass HR51”, said Washington’s House delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, who does not have floor vote privileges and therefore was unable to cast a vote for DC statehood.
Washington officials have long bristled at Congress’s role in the capital’s affairs, as the US Constitution grants Congress the right to exercise control over the city’s business “in all cases whatsoever”.Maryland and Virginia ceded land in the 1780s for the creation of a federal capital along the Potomac River.
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