The New Yorker: Democrats Push to Make Washington, D.C., the Fifty-first State Editor Mar 10, 2019 In the coming days, the House will vote on, and likely pass, H.R. 51, a bill that would make Washington, D.C., the fifty-first state.
Joshua Burch in The Post: This is the only path to D.C. statehood Editor Jan 25, 2019 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!-->…