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There is a new push on Capitol Hill to make Washington, D.C. the nation’s 51st State.
Something is about to take place in the Chambers of the U.S. Congress that hasn’t happened in more than 25 years; a Vote in the House of Representatives on D.C. Statehood.
D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and Mayor Muriel Bowser held a news conference on Thursday and announced Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings from Maryland will hold a hearing on D.C. statehood on July 24.
But while all the excitement for a Hearing and possible floor vote on Statehood, it is highly unlikely that any Republicans in either chamber of the U.S. Congress will vote for Statehood.
Here’s why: If D.C. becomes a State, they will be granted 2 Senators and with the face of Washington, D.C. politics being heavily Democratic, the Republicans are not going gonna add two more Democratic seats to the U.S. Senate with the possibility of Shifting the Power.
So while the excitement of a possible vote on the House Floor, don’t get too excited just yet!!! Democrats need to be in the majority in both houses of Congress; The House & The Senate.
Even if the statehood measure is passed by the House, it would not likely get a vote in the Republican-controlled Senate.
