Maryland Matters: Introduced in Annapolis: A Statement for Statehood
The latest person to throw support behind statehood for Washington, D.C., is a freshman delegate from Montgomery County.
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City Paper: So Far, 30 Freshmen in the 116th Congress Support Statehood
The re-introduced D.C. Statehood bill in the House of Representatives, H.R. 51, is having a historic moment with a record 189 co-sponsors as of Jan. 25, 2019—30 of them among the 101 freshman members of the 116th Congress.
Joshua Burch in The Post: This is the only path to D.C. statehood
With the 116th Congress underway, D.C. residents are committed to ensuring that the House of Representatives takes up and passes H.R. 51, the D.C. statehood bill. Residents are under no illusion that the Senate will do the same or that the…
Roll Call: New Democrats hand D.C. statehood a milestone
‘Painstaking’ process may finally be paying off, says Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
Norton Announces Record-Breaking 182nd Cosponsor of Her D.C. Statehood Bill
Contact: Benjamin Fritsch – o: 202-225-8050, c: 202-225-8143 January 17, 2019
Norton Announces Record-Breaking 182nd Cosponsor of Her D.C. Statehood…
City Paper: A Stumble for Statehood? The federal shutdown brands D.C as just a government town.
The federal government shutdown is having one collateral effect—it’s blowing a hole in the District’s latest effort to promote statehood for itself.
Libby Watson on Splinter: Make DC a State Already
Perhaps one of the biggest policy no-brainers on its merits that apparently remains politically unfeasible is statehood for the District of Columbia, which has a population larger than Wyoming and Vermont but still has no voting…
DCist: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is The Latest Member Of Congress To Sign Onto D.C. Statehood Bill
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has already issued her support for D.C.’s latest statehood bill, and now a member of Congress with more Twitter followers than the speaker has come on board, too: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
Norton seeks statehood push in newly Democratic House
Buoyed by the new Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is leading a renewed push for DC statehood and self-governance. At a Jan. 4 press conference, Norton and local elected officials…
jonetta rose barras: DC statehood movement, without movement
Yet again, DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and others have raised the specter of DC securing voting rights in Congress, which have long been denied to residents of the nation’s capital. Last week, with Mayor Muriel Bowser and Council Chairman…
Greg Parnas on DC Beer blog: DC Breweries Especially Harmed by Federal Shutdown
The federal government’s latest partial shutdown is now the second longest in history and will likely break the 21 day record of the 1995 shutdown.
Afro-American: Dream of D.C. Statehood a Reality This Time?
It was the meeting that everybody and nobody saw coming all at the same time. In a wood paneled room last week at Rayburn House Office Building, in D.C., in a space designated for Committee on Oversight and Reform, D.C. representative to…
Washington Post: House leadership gives its blessing to D.C. Statehood
U.S. House leadership has endorsed statehood for the District of Columbia, including in the first bill filed in the new Congress language that would provide D.C. with two senators and a representative, all with full voting rights.
Norton Releases Prepared Remarks for D.C. Statehood Press Conference
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January 4, 2019
Norton Releases Prepared Remarks for D.C. Statehood Press Conference
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her prepared remarks from a press…
DCist: Norton Introduces D.C. Statehood Bill Yet Again, This Time With Support From Speaker Pelosi
The 115th Congress has officially been sworn in, and so far, the bill with the most co-sponsors is H.R. 51—the bill that would grant D.C. statehood. (D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton says she specifically reserved that number, because…
Norton Gets Findings Supporting D.C. Statehood Included in Democrats’ Sweeping Pro-Democracy Reform…
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January 4, 2019
Norton Gets Findings Supporting D.C. Statehood Included in Democrats’ Sweeping Pro-Democracy Reform Bill, H.R. 1
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today…
Norton Introduces D.C. Statehood Bill with Record Number of Original Cosponsors, Announces House…
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January 3, 2019
Norton Introduces D.C. Statehood Bill with Record Number of Original Cosponsors, Announces House Oversight Committee Will Hold Hearing and Markup This Year
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor…
Washington Post: What Democratic control of the House means for D.C. statehood
Statehood for the District is likely to remain out of reach as long as Republicans hold the majority in the Senate, despite Democratic control of the House in the new Congress.
Washington Informer: D.C. Statehood Panel Upbeat About 2019 Prospects
The New Columbia Statehood Commission views 2019 with excitement as it deals with a new U.S. Congress in January.
Wilson Building display of political cartoonist’s work shows long history of voting rights…
Last month’s pivotal midterm election provoked heightened frustration over DC’s lack of a vote in Congress. District residents on Nov. 6 may have found themselves longingly gazing across the Potomac River to spy on Arlington County, where…