The House is expected to approve a measure making Washington, D.C. a state, although it is unlikely to pass in the Senate.
The House is expected to vote next week on a measure that would make Washington, D.C. a state, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced on Tuesday. The measure, dubbed H.R. 51 — to denote that D.C. would be the fifty-first state — is expected to pass in the Democratic-controlled House, but will likely face steep opposition in the Senate.
"Our country is one of the only democratic nations on Earth that still denies voting rights to the residents of its capital city," Oversight Committee Chairwoman Caroline Maloney said in a statement Tuesday."As millions of Americans cry out for equality under the law, I urge my colleagues to correct this historic wrong and support this landmark legislation to give basic human rights to the disenfranchised citizens of the District of Columbia.
Story continuesIn an interview with the Washington Post Monday, Hoyer said he believed D.C. statehood would have been approved long ago if it were"a Republican city and a white city." The district is majority-minority with a large black population. The vote comes amid escalating tensions between the Trump administration and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, after Mr. Trump sent federal law enforcement officers to quell protests against racial violence in the district in recent weeks. Earlier this month, law enforcement outside the White House deployed tear gas to remove peaceful protesters before the president walked across the street for a photo opportunity in front of a damaged historic church.
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